# Hide a fermata on one staff **URL:** \ **Category:** Dorico\ **Tags:** dorico-4\ **Created:** [March 1, 2023, 9:53pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/hide-a-fermata-on-one-staff/836698 "2023-03-01T21:53:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![DanielMuzMurray](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/danielmuzmurray/32/245301_2.png) [@DanielMuzMurray](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/DanielMuzMurray)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/hide-a-fermata-on-one-staff/836698/2 "2023-03-01T22:06:53Z")
Don’t think so. You should be able to select and drag it off the page in Engrave mode. Upon searching, another way might be to insert a breath mark in that stave, which will cancel the fermata, and then scale the breath to 1% and/or opacity to 0. > [@Changes to fermatas on single staff](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/changes-to-fermatas-on-single-staff/134040/): > > How can I notate a pause with fermata for all instruments except the one that is playing a cadenza? I first tried to make the fermata on that one staff invisible, but the alpha channel settings seem to apply to all fermatas at once, and I couldn’t find a way to select a single one. I then converted the fermata to a breath mark and was able to hide that, but that only appears to be possible on the first staff. On [Changes to fermatas on single staves](https://steinberg.help/dorico/v1/en/dorico/topics/notation_reference/notation_reference_holds_pauses_overriding_fermata_on_single_staff_c.html) it shows a score where the fermata on the bo… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/hide-a-fermata-on-one-staff/836698)._