Removing mysterious voice 1 rests on bar 2
I am writing a compressed SATB score, using voices 1-4 to separate the notes on the bars. For some reason rests belonging to voice 1 (Soprano) has mysteriously appeared on the men's bar, as shown in the image. Probably due to a mistake I did early on, when I typed in the tenor as voice 2 (alto), which I later corrected by selecting the notes and clicking the voice 3 button.
Apparently I cannot delete these rests, because "voice 1 rests cannot be deleted". There were voice 2 rests there as well, which I could delete, but these ones don't want to be deleted.
I even went so far as to try and copy/paste the notes to a new sheet, but lo and behold the rests came along and will not be denied. I cannot select just one voice and copy that, if I try to select more than one note, everything is selected. The "mark all similar" option does not allow for copying, apparently.
What can I do to get rid of them, short of deleting the men's notes and typing them in again?
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Comments
Are you using Voice 3/4?
It is better to always resort to the smallest possible number of them. Select the notes (hold down Ctrl) and then click on the icon for Voice 2. Then select the unwanted pause and press Del.
Edit: Tools/Voices->Exchange 1/3-2/4
In reply to Are you using Voice 3/4? by Shoichi
Yes, voice 3 and 4 is tenor and bass.
In reply to Are you using Voice 3/4? by Shoichi
Each staff has its OWN voices 1-2-3-4. You want voices 1-2 in the lower staff, not 3-4. You can swap them into the right ones with the voice-exchange tools. Please read https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/voices . This is a standard newbie error.
In reply to Each staff has its OWN… by [DELETED] 1831606
That solved the problem. Thanks for the fast reply, guys!
In reply to Are you using Voice 3/4? by Shoichi
Thanks!