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2. Notations If, on the other hand, you want to hide staves that have no music on them, to save space on the page and make your score easier to read, use Layout Hide Empty Staves – read on.
Usefully, Sibelius shows you where staves are hidden in your score by drawing a dashed blue line across the page if View Layout Marks is switched on – 8.5 Breaks.
Save trees – hide empty staves If a staff only contains bars rest, you can hide it from that particular system, as is done in large scores: Double-click the staff to select it all (or select several staves as a passage) Choose Layout Hide Empty Staves (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Alt+H or H).
You can also do this to several staves, or a passage lasting as many bars as you like, or even to the whole score. Staves will be hidden only on systems where they have no music, or where all the music is hidden (e.g. cue passages). To hide empty staves throughout the score, simply choose Edit Select Select All (shortcut Ctrl+A or A) and choose Layout Hide Empty Staves – all unused staves throughout the score will disappear and the whole score will instantly reformat to fit on fewer pages, possibly saving several grateful trees. When using Layout Hide Empty Staves, if you include keyboard staves then you may end up with just one hand hidden, which looks odd. So either check the keyboard part afterwards and reshow the hidden keyboard staff if this occurs, or (if, say, you’re hiding staves throughout a score and can’t be bothered to check the keyboard staves afterwards) don’t include keyboard staves when hiding staves. You can’t, of course, hide the only staff in a system, since there has to be at least one staff to show that there’s a system there at all. If you want actually to delete all the bars from a single staff, you should instead select the bars as a system passage and hit Delete.
Show hidden staves To re-show staves that you’ve previously hidden using Layout Hide Empty Staves: Click a bar where you want to show the staves Choose Layout Show Empty Staves (shortcut Ctrl+Shift+Alt+S or S) In the dialog that appears, click OK to show all hidden staves, or select the particular staves you
want to show. This shows staves that were hidden using Layout Hide Empty Staves (because they contain no music), but it doesn’t show: staves that were hidden using an instrument change to No instrument (hidden) – to make
these reappear, use another instrument change to revert to the original instrument staves that were hidden using Focus on Staves – to make these reappear, switch off View Focus on Staves.
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