Guitar Pro question - force tab to higher position

[RickRS]

Just getting started with Guitar Pro (ver. 8). I'm entering musical notation and letting it convert that to tab. I can't figure out how to adjust when tab has a open string and I want to change that to tab as next string 5th fret. User Manual is not helping me with this.

[TBman]

Originally Posted by RickRS

Just getting started with Guitar Pro (ver. 8). I'm entering musical notation and letting it convert that to tab. I can't figure out how to adjust when tab has a open string and I want to change that to tab as next string 5th fret. User Manual is not helping me with this.

I always enter the tab and let GP do the notation,
Just type the 5 on the preceding string and delete the 0 on the next.

[RickRS]

Originally Posted by TBman

I always enter the tab and let GP do the notation,
Just type the 5 on the preceding string and delete the 0 on the next.

I can read music notation on an elementary level. What happening is I'm tabbing bass guitar parts for a community band wind ensemble I just joined. Oh man! They are some serious musicians there, and serious music. Real learning opportunity.

I resorted to deleting the note on the staff and re-entering as tab at the position I wanted. I was thinking there's a simpler way.

[JonPR]

Originally Posted by RickRS

I can read music notation on an elementary level. What happening is I'm tabbing bass guitar parts for a community band wind ensemble I just joined. Oh man! They are some serious musicians there, and serious music. Real learning opportunity.

I resorted to deleting the note on the staff and re-entering as tab at the position I wanted. I was thinking there's a simpler way.

In Sibelius you can drag tab numbers from string to string and the numbers adjust.

It looks like you can do something similar in musescore:
https://musescore.org/en/node/109906
https://musescore.org/en/node/71121