Spacing issue when removing rest?

[StevenJones01]

Rather than hiding/erasing/removing the rest, as per my suggestion in this recent thread

Hiding dotted rests

With some rough sketch sheets, I want to hide rests and keep rhythmic spaces equivalent to them. I can hide, say, quarter rests and half rests by changing opacity to 0%, but dots of dotted rests remain black. How can I hide dotted rests?

try changing the rest to a note and then in Properties (in Engrave mode) hide its notehead, stem and ledger lines and suppress its playback.