Removing line of rest for a player with multiple instruments

Hello!
I’m new to Dorico and have been learning things as I go along and the forums have been so helpful to find my issues and resolve them.

The issue I’m having is with the extra glockenspiel line in at the bottom of the left page. There are no notes in that staff yet it still shows the entire line of rests in the Glock part. Is there a way to remove that line and have it say “To Glock.” to make it easier to read and more condensed? Dorico does this automatically for the other lines, but for some reason it doesn’t do it for this line and I can’t figure out why. I’m sure it’s a simple command I just can’t find it in the settings or on any tutorials or the forum.

Thank you so much for any help or ideas you have!


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I’m wondering if there’s an explicit whole rest rather than a bar rest somewhere between mm. 39–47…

I just checked and I didn’t see anything, but I’m coming from Sibelius so maybe I’m missing a troubleshooting tactic for locating a rouge rest. I attached the file if you have time to take a look.

I took a quick look and I’m afraid I’m stumped. But no doubt someone wiser will come along…

Got it! Under Layout Options > Vertical Spacing > Staff Visibility for the layout with the individually named instruments you need to hide empty staves:

That was it! I knew it was some little setting I didn’t know existed haha. Thank you so much for helping and responding so quickly! I really appreciate it!

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