# Edit

### From Audacity Manual

The main commands for editing audio are under the Edit Menu and the Effect Menu.

The most common editing actions such as cut, copy and paste also have buttons in Edit Toolbar. Effects let you do things like boost the bass, change pitch or tempo, or remove noise in various ways. Find the correct effect to do what you want here.

Audacity applies edits to selected areas of the audio track. To select a particular area, click in the track and drag the shaded area with the mouse. If no audio is selected, Audacity by default selects all the audio in the project window.

You can mark edit points or regions in your audio with labels. These can be useful for recalling the edits when saving and reopening a project. They can also be useful to mark splits in a long audio track that is to be exported as multiple files.

| When playing, recording or paused, the Edit and Effect menus will appear grayed out, because changes to the audio data cannot be made until you press the yellow Stop button.

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