In a songbook for children, the first song is for two groups of singers, and I have them called ‘Voices’, and they automatically appear - as I intended - as ‘Voices 1’ and ‘Voices 2’ to the left of the stave.
I only need one group of singers for the other songs, so in (for example) Flow 2 I have unticked ‘Voices 2’ in Setup. The remaining stave is now labelled ‘Voices 1’, whereas I would like to have just ‘Voices’.
Is there a way of hiding the number in the flows which have a single group of singers? Sorry for the senior moment.
If you want them to be called Voices 1 in one flow and voices in the other, I don’t think it’s possible.
You could create a third voices player, add him to his own group and use this player for the flows with only one voice staff.
Alternatively use a single section player that holds a single “voice” instrument, then use divisi in the first flow to break out into multiple staves, and not in the second flow.
I have never seen the 1 and 2 above the staff in any existing orchestral part. I think they’re pretty superfluous.
I recently played from a part I made myself in Dorico in which these numbers were visible because I forgot to switch them off (or change them to ‘div.’), and I got confused while playing because the 1 looked like a (very wrong) fingering for the nearest note.