Thank you so much for explaining this, it had baffled me for a bit. I appreciate this! Brad On 2011-08-23, at 10:25 AM, Gale Andrews wrote: > > | From Brad Erhardt <bookmanbrad@xxxxxxx> > | Tue, 23 Aug 2011 09:57:12 -0700 > | Subject: [audacity4blind] removing tracks >> Hello everybody, I have a quick question. Somehow while I was editing >> a intro for a podcast, I discovered that I had 4 tracks. The first was my >> music background track. Then I had two blank tracks and lastly my >> VoiceOver track. >> >> What I am trying to find out is, how do I remove the empty tracks, >> I moved down in the panel until I was on a empty track, but when I used the >> "remove track" item from the track menu, it removed my music track instead. > > You must have had the music track selected, which is not the same > as it having focus. You move focus by using up arrow or down > arrow. Selectedness of the focused track is toggled with ENTER, > or you can change the selectedness of multiple tracks starting > from the focused track by holding SHIFT then using up arrow or > down arrow as appropriate. > > As a quick solution, do Edit > Select > All, then use up or down > arrow until you have the focus on the first track (the music track). > Hit ENTER to deselect it. Now arrow down to the voice track, and > hit ENTER to deselect it. Now try Tracks > Remove Tracks and it > will remove the remaining two selected tracks (the empty ones). > > > > > Gale > > > > > > The audacity4blind web site is at > //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind > > Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, > Audacity keyboard commands, and more... > > To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to > audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with subject line > unsubscribe > Brad Erhardt bookmanbrad@xxxxxxx The audacity4blind web site is at //www.freelists.org/webpage/audacity4blind Subscribe and unsubscribe information, message archives, Audacity keyboard commands, and more... To unsubscribe from audacity4blind, send an email to audacity4blind-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with subject line unsubscribe