reducing the number of measures in a staff
I've read and reread the documentation, but I can't figure out how to reduce the number of measures in a staff from the preset number. If I use EDIT - MEASURES - DELETE SELECTED MEASURES, the measures come off the end but don't reduce number of measures in the selected staff.
A little help for a relative novice, please.
Carl
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"preset number" you mean Create New Score?
In reply to "preset number" you mean by Shoichi
or, perhaps, right-click on a measure> measure properties> Add to bar number: enter negative value
In reply to or, perhaps, right-click on a by Shoichi
No. A piece I'm working on has a staff with 13 measures. I want to reduce the number of measures on that staff to 9.
Carl
In reply to No. A piece I'm working on by cneste
Both with 1.3 that with Nightly (http://prereleases.musescore.org/windows/nightly/ )
Select the unwanted measures: hold Ctrl and press Del
should work
In reply to No. A piece I'm working on by cneste
Maybe click on the barline after the 9th measure and press Return ?
In reply to Maybe click on the barline by [DELETED] 5
Thanks to all of you for your help. Clicking on the bar line and pressing ENTER did the job.
Carl
In reply to Maybe click on the barline by [DELETED] 5
Thank you!
In reply to No. A piece I'm working on by cneste
Have you put notes in yet? MuseScore automatically spaces things out as you do. So even if there are 13 measures empty, there will likely be fewer once you add notes.
If you have added notes and still get 13 measures - I guess probably just very sinple measures like mostly whole notes? - then a line break is the way to go, as mentioned above. Click the barline you want to end the line with, hit Enter - same basic process as ending a line early in a text editor.