Blank bars

Hi, please I can’t find how to renew default rests in particular bars. Via picture.


. Thanks Jiri

Double click at the start of the measure to invoke the caret there, then type Shift-B rest Enter.

Jiri: also, welcome to the forum. :slight_smile:

Ah yes, that too - welcome Jiri!

Thanks a lot for all. Solved👍

On a slightly similar vein… I recently tried to create a bar in a combined cello and bass part with notes in the cello and a [mid-bar] whole-bar rest in the bass part, but I was unable, without a workaround, to find a way to do this ‘properly’. I ended up copying a half-note rest for the bass part and placing it on the half-bar, which created another half rest at the beginning, which I hid. I then changed the vertical position of the half rest to make it look like a whole rest. There must be a better way!

You can only do Shift-B, rest, if there’s already a downstem voice in use in that staff.

This worked but, of course, not initially, as there was at the time no second voice. After I later had had a need for a second voice, I was able to go back and use Shift-B, rest and redo this ‘properly’. If I’d had no need for a second voice, I would either have had to settle for my workaround or to have created a fake second voice somewhere and camouflaged it. This isn’t that rare an occurrence so it’s strange that this particular situation is difficult.


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Vaughan, you don’t need to fake anything or hide anything. You just need to make sure that the second voice actually exists. Look:

Ah, thanks again, Leo!