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These commands enable you to readily skip the cursor position to the beginning or end of your current selection.
View Menu has commands that determine the amount of detail you see in all the tracks in the project window. It also lets you show or hide Toolbars and some additional windows such as Undo HistoryTransport Menu commands let you play or stop, loop play, scrub play or record (including timed and sound activated recordings)Tracks Menu provides commands for creating and removing tracks, applying operations to selected tracks such as mixing, resampling or converting from stereo to mono, and lets you add or edit labelsGenerate Menu lets you create audio containing tones, noise or silenceAudacity includes many built-in effects and also lets you use a wide range of plug-in effectsThe Analyze Menu contains tools for finding out about the characteristics of your audio, or labeling key featureThe Tools Menu contains customisable toolsThe Extra menu provides access to additional Commands that are not available in the normal default Audacity menusThe Help Menu lets you find out more about the Audacity application and how to use it. It also includes some diagnostic tools.Zoom in/out on the horizontal axisControls the sizes of tracksMove forward/backwards through the audioBrings up the History window which can then be left open while using Audacity normallyBrings up the Karaoke window, which displays the labels in a "bouncing ball" scrolling displayMixer Board is an alternative view to the audio tracks in the main tracks windowToolbars can be used to determine which of the Audacity toolbars are displayedShows extra menus with many extra less-used commandsOption to show or not show audio that is too loud (in red) on the wave formWhen there is a selection, moves the cursor to the start of the selection and removes the selectionWhen there is a selection, moves the cursor to the end of the selection and removes the selectionThe MenusView-Skip toMenu.png
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Bulb icon Tips for usage of Selection Start and Selection End:
  • Using either command after zooming in or out provides a keyboard method to zoom in or out on a selection edge. To enable the keyboard shortcuts for these commands go to the Keyboard Preferences page and set the Defaults to Full. This is otherwise possible only by Ctrl and mouse wheel scroll while the mouse pointer is positioned at either selection edge.
  • In some cases. either command may have no effect or the selection edge may not move fully to center if the selection is over to left or right so that the Timeline position cannot move sufficiently. For example, a selection wholly to left of the waveform center point cannot move if the visible left edge of the waveform starts at time zero. If "Enable scrolling left of zero" is enabled in Tracks Behaviors Preferences then it will always be possible to scroll the display so the cursor or selection edge is at the center of the track display.

Selection Start  Ctrl + [    Extra

Attempts to move the left edge of the current selection to the center of the screen, without changing the zoom level. This is useful if you are zoomed far in at the right edge of the selection and then wish to view the left edge, which may be currently off screen. Also if you have lost sight of the selection entirely by scrolling too far, either this or the companion command "Skip to Selection End" (below) will always bring the selection back on screen.

Selection End  Ctrl + ]    Extra

Attempts to move the right edge of the current selection to the center of the screen, without changing the zoom level. This is useful if you are zoomed far in at the left edge of the selection and then wish to view the right edge.which may be currently off screen. Also if you have lost sight of the selection entirely by scrolling too far, either this or the companion command "Skip to Selection Start" (above) will always bring the selection back on screen.


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