[Bee]

Hi Mike, 

Thanks for creating MobileSheetsPro and providing this wonderful resource for users and being so responsive to requests :-) I have been using it on and off for some years, but in the last six months have been using it almost daily and love it. 

I am wondering whether there is any way to select a number of annotations and copy them as a group to paste elsewhere in the same score. I am a classical pianist - often there are passages in a piece which are identical and so the same fingering and information is relevant in more than one place. The layout is often not identical in the repeated notation, so I can't just copy the page and paste it elsewhere in the score.

Because I add my annotations a little at a time as I work on a piece, and I use a mix of typing and hand writing, they are all separate little annotations. Copying and pasting each of these annotations one at a time would take just as long as actually writing them all in one at a time. It would be fabulous to select a group of annotations for several bars/measures and then copy them to the new place. I may have to adjust the individual annotations in the new place, if the page layout is not quite identical, so I wouldn't want to lock the annotations into an unchangeable group. 

I have searched through a number of threads on editing but I haven't found info on anything quite like this. 

I am using a Samsung Galaxy Tab S2.

Thanks
Bee

[Zubersoft]

Hello Bee,

At the moment, it's not possible to copy/paste multiple annotations at once because I didn't provide a mechanism to initiate the copy when multiple annotations are selected. The long press will deselect all but one. I'll have to add a new icon to trigger this and update the paste code to handle multiple annotations instead of just one.  If getting this in the short term would be a huge help to you, I can try to slip it into an update sooner, otherwise I will include it with the annotations rework which will be released after the library synchronization update.

Mike

[Bee]

Thanks Mike, 

It would be a great advantage to me to have this ability, however, I am content to wait for it to come when you are ready. 

Thank you for being so responsive to user requests :-)

Cheers
Bee

[reggoboy]

I'm also interested in this feature. On my Mac, I can't seem to find any way to select multiple annotations at once. I can't use "Swap File" to preserve the underlying reference, since the new one has been hand-edited by me, and is no longer a part of a multi-page PDF book. So now I'm going to have to select (and position) each annotation one at a time.

Unless there's a way to do it now?

[Zubersoft]

Yes, you can do it now. Just tap the selection tool, select multiple annotations, tap the copy icon in the edit bar, then long press on a page and tap "Paste". It will paste all of the copied annotations. You can also select multiple annotations using then layers window.

Mike

[reggoboy]

You can also select multiple annotations using then layers window.

Oh, that's a cool trick. Yes, to be clear, what I couldn't figure out was how to even copy multiple annotations. I guess it makes sense that the familiar macOS features of Shift-click and Cmd-click don't work for an iPad-based app. But now I found:

1) press-and-hold on the arrow which selects everything
2) dragging a selection rectangle to select multiple
3) your cool layers approach

Thanks!!