Hiding a single whole bar rest when there is a grace note in the bar

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In a harp part, I have a C3 grace note to an A#4-B4 chord. The C3 appeared initially in the space under 4 ledger lines below the treble staff. I want that to appear in the bass staff to suggest left hand, so I selected it and pressed M to move it. It looks fine, but there is also a whole rest in the measure. It’s not a big deal, but how can I make Dorico hide the whole rest on that measure alone?

In harp music it seems that the two staves are conceptually like one even more than in keyboard music.

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Try writing everything in the bass cleff and then moving the non-grace notes into the upper staff with N.

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I believe it is as simple as selecting the whole rest then Edit → Remove Rests. That will set the starts voice property.

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This works! But after struggling valiantly over this triviality, I made an editorial decision to leave the grace note on a ledger line. At least I learned something in the process. Thanks very much for that suggestion that never occurred to me.

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