Editing Overview

Almost all commands in GoldWave operate on the currently selected part of a sound. The selected part, or selection, is the highlighted part of the sound graph between two vertical markers. The vertical markers are cyan lines located at the far left side (start marker) and far right side (finish marker) of the graph in the Sound window.

GoldWave provides several ways of setting the selection. You can:

Use the normal click-and-drag method used in most other Windows programs to select the part of the graph you want to edit.
Click the right mouse button to display a menu where you can choose Set Start Marker or Set Finish Marker.
Start playing the sound and use the Edit | Marker | Drop Start or Edit | Marker | Drop Finish commands. You can click on the time axis to start playback anywhere in the sound.
Position the mouse directly over one of the cyan markers and click-and-drag it to a new position (useful for precise adjustments of the end points).
Click-and-drag using the right mouse button to select part of the graph, then choose Select from the menu that appears.
Use the Edit | Marker | Set command.
Use the Edit | Channel menu to select one channel of a stereo file.
Refer to Navigation and Editing for details on using the keyboard.

Mouse selection methods work in both the large sound graph or in the small Overview graph.

If you just click the left mouse button without dragging, the start marker is moved. If you just click the right mouse button, a context menu appears, which can be used to start playback at any position. If you click-and-drag with the right mouse button, you can play or zoom in on that area without altering the current selection.

To disable the right-click menu and use the older left/right mouse button selection method, select that setting under the Options | Window command.