The Bar Rests page on the Layout tab of the Layout Settings dialog allows you to hide/show bar rests and/or consolidate empty bars.
To open the Bar Rests page, do one of the following:
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Select . Click Bar Rests.
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On the Score Editor toolbar, click the Layout field to open the Layouts pane, and click Settings. In the Layout Settings dialog, click Layout, and then Bar Rests.
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On the Visibility tab of the Score Editor, click Settings. In the Layout Settings dialog, click Layout, and then Bar Rests.
The following options are available:
- Show Bar Rests in Empty Bars
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Allows you to hide/show bar rests in empty bars in your layout.
- Consolidate
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Allows you to hide/show multi-bar rests in each layout independently, and to choose whether or not to consolidate one-bar repeats. Selecting None hides multi-bar rests in the selected layouts. Selecting Multi-Bar Rests consolidates adjacent empty bars into multi-bar rests in the selected layouts.
Selecting Multi-Bar Rests and Bar Repeats consolidates adjacent empty bars or bars that only contain one-bar repeats into multi-bar rests in the selected layouts.