Grouped staves have an important characteristic: instead of drawing barlines only on the staves, the barlines can either be drawn through or between staves in a group.

Make sure you’re in Scroll View before you begin; if you’re not, choose Scroll View from the View menu (in case staves have been hidden).

To draw the barline on a group

1. Click the Staff tool  . The Staff menu appears.
2. If you haven’t yet created the group, do so now. See Groups-To group staves.
3. Click a group handle, then, from the Staff menu, choose Edit Group Attributes. Or, double-click a group handle. (Or, choose Edit Group Attributes from the Staff menu without selecting a group.) To display the attributes of another group, use the arrow controls to select another Group ID number.
4. Use the Draw Barlines drop-down list in the Group Attributes dialog box to specify how you want barlines to appear for this group. To draw the barline only within each staff, and not connect each staff with the barline, choose Only on Staves from the drop-down list. To draw a barline as one continuous line passing through all the staves in the group, choose Through Staves. To draw a barline between staves, but not through the staff lines themselves, choose Only Between Staves (Mensurstriche).

5. Click OK to confirm your barline settings.

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