Staff
Menu
How to get there
Click the Staff tool 
.
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 ScoreManager, where you can add or change Instruments. In the ScoreManager, choose Add Instrument to add a new staff.
- 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. SongWriter moves the remaining staves up to the position of the
top staff that was deleted.
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.
- 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.
