explode implode for voices

If you searchthe forums, you'll find a number of threads discussing the possibility of "changing voice" of an existing note. In general, it wouldn't work nearly as well as you might at first imagine, because many real world situations just wouldn't lend themselves to that (what to do about notes already in the other voice, how to enter notes in voice one in the first place if it doesn't enter at the same time as a note n that vocie, tc). No doubt, there are certain situations where that could save a keystroke or two, but it doesn't solve e general problem. There is no way to get around the fact that the best way to enter multi-voice music is by entering the nites directly in to the correct voices. 2.0 contains a few features designed to make this easier, most notably the fact that rests now automatically offset themselves vertically.

Meanwhile, to get at a rest that is stuck behind another note, the easiest thing to do in my experience is to click the note, ctrl up or down down to move it an octave, then you can double click the rest and arrow it into position, or - if it happens to be one of the special musocal situations where hiding the rest is appropriate (and these are not as common as some might think) - mark it invisible.

As for the voice being reset to 1 each time you enable note entry, I too am caught by that occasionally, and wouldn't mind seeing tht behavior changed. Mostly, though,yu get used to it and stop making tht mistake the longer you work with MuseScore.

In any case, I think it will turn out to be mostly about practice. Entering complex multi-voice piano music does take thought, and it's tricky with any program. But I don't think the approach of entering the voices on separate stves then merging them is likely to prove better in the long run.