Staff menu
How to get there
Choose the Staff tool 
. The Staff menu appears.
What it does
Use the Staff menu to add or insert blank staves into the score, remove existing staves, change the settings for a selected staff and choose a bracket.
- New Staves. Choose New Staves to open the Score Manager, where you can add or change instruments. In the Score Manager, choose Add Instrument to add a new staff.
Note: Only delete staves if you want them permanently removed from your score. To recover deleted staves, immediately choose Undo from the Edit menu. To temporarily remove a staff, hide the staff using the Hide Staves checkbox in the Staff Attributes dialog box. See Hiding Staves—To hide staves.
- Delete Staves. This command is only available when one or more staves are selected. Select the staff or staves that you want removed from the score, then choose Delete Staves to remove the selected staves and reposition any staves that were below the deleted staves. PrintMusic moves the remaining staves up to the position of the top staff that was deleted.
- Edit Staff Attributes. Select a staff, then choose this command. Or, choose this command with no staff selected.The Staff Attributes dialog box appears, displaying the attributes for the selected staff or the first staff, respectively. Here you can change the settings for the displayed staff. For details, see Staff Attributes dialog box.
- Clear Alternate Notation. Choose this command to remove any alternate notation applied to the currently selected region.
- Apply Alternate Notation. Choose this command to display the Apply Alternate Notation dialog box. This dialog box lists the alternate notation styles available. Select a style to apply to the selected region. See Apply Alternate Notation dialog box and Alternate Notation dialog box.
- Add Bracket. Choose this command to display the Bracket Attributes dialog box, where you can bracket staves. Choose which consecutive staves you want included and choose a bracket to enclose them. For details, see Bracket Attributes dialog box.
