Dorico: how to delete empty bars?

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I inserted a number of bars and now don’t need them. How to I delete them? I’ve tried selecting them all (which only works if they have at least bar spaces, btw) and Delete, but no change.

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Got to the point in the score you want to delete from. Press Shift-B to bring up the bars popover, then type -4 or or however many bars you want to delete. -1 for one bar, -32 for 32, etc. Adding or deleting bars from the popover is basically the same, just a question of adding a minus sign for deleting. There are other ways, but this is my fast/go to.
P.S. sorry for omitting the “f” on shift" for a minute - re-read and fixed it.

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Shift-B -x Enter, or use the System Track

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Brilliant - thanks!

Gee, maybe this should be in the doc somewhere - “delete bars” or something equally searchable. I’m not at the mac right now so cant check to see if the negative number thing is in the doc; I just know I couldnt find it by searching for what I wanted to do.

But hey, “full featured” doesnt begin to describe this app, and doc writing is hard.

Thanks again,

– jdm

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Deleting bars/beats or Deleting bars/beats with the system track
(I searched for delete bars: Search Results - Dorico Help)

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Also in the popup, you can type trim to delete all the empty bars at the end. Saves trying to figure out how many bars are left.

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doh! not sure how i missed that; i’ll take my dunce points and wear the cap of shame today.

thanks,

–jdm

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best answer!

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Great to know!

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