Help with clefs
In the picture below, I have hidden a bar in "measure properties," which hides the clefs. However, I want the clefs to be visible. Adding them simply hides them with the previous measure.
How can I show the clefs? 
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Could you post a picture of what you are trying to accomplish? I am struggling to understand.
In reply to Could you post a picture of by Marc Sabatella
I have posted an image from a score by George Crumb: even though the first measure in the piano part is hidden, the clefs are still there, while musescore hides the clefs.
![Crumb.jpg]( "Crumb.jpg")
In reply to I have posted an image from a by Haotian Yu
There a a few ways I could imagine trying to reproduce this.
The most straightforward would be to simply superimpose a blank graphic over the score. Or add the desired text to that graphic.
Another would be to export a graphic of the initial clefs and superimpose that over the blank measure.
Another would be to actually define the a very short initial measure with nothing but an invisibe rest. So your passage aboe would actually be represented as three measures - the first apparently containing only the clefs, the second contains the electric cello (?) part and text notations in the piano part, the third containing the electric piano part.
Of course, I'm sure you are realizing that scores like this are going to present tons of challenges, really with either MuseScore or almost any notation program. While notation programs constantly add features to support various experimental notations, it's hard to anticipate everything someone might try to do. One thing I find is that many composers of this sort music simply build their own notation around whatever their program of choice happens to support. Like, if Crumb were in your position right now, he'd perhaps be saying to himself, "since the clefs don't appear, I guess I won't display them there, but will display them on the second measure instead" which of course amounts to exactly the same thing.
In reply to There a a few ways I could by Marc Sabatella
Of course, this was not a feature request, but rather a request for help.
How does one add clefs if I wish to do it on the second measure as you mentioned?
In reply to Of course, this was not a by Haotian Yu
You mean the second method I mentioned?
Create a score with a single measure. Hide the rests, so only the clefs and staff lines are visible. Save as PNG. Then, from your favorite file browser, drag and drop than image onto the "real" score.
No, wait, you probably the mean the way I suggested doing it *instead* of how Crumb actually did it. Even if I put a dummy clef change in the invisible bar to force the clef change in bar 2 to "stick", the clef change shows in the previous bar. Interesting dilemma. I guess I'm back to something like my third suggestion above, meaning you're just as well off doing it the way Crumb did.
In reply to You mean the second method I by Marc Sabatella
I tried to invent a trick ... but I do not know if it will work.
The hypothesis of the image superimposed seems to me better.