Voices Hide Rest

Dorico
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Hello,

Using voices I’ve been following the video to hide rests and this has worked well. However, I do have one stubborn bar where I can’t hide the rest.

I used the ‘show note colours’ to identify the voice as shown in my following screenshot.

I then selected the voice note, opened the ‘Properties’ panel and followed the procedure to hide the rest but it didn’t work in this case…

I have checked through the whole score to see if there are any other bars affecting this but everything seems ok.
I’d appreciate any suggestions.

Thanks.

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Hi Michael, have you tried selecting the rest and hitting Edit > Remove Rests?

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I had the same problem and it works! Thank you very much!

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Hello David,

Thanks for replying and your suggestion.

That worked great. Excellent. :slight_smile:

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Every once in a blue moon I have the same problem and the “remove rests” option always works. Makes me chuckle every time and I’m sure the team is addressing it.

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But … once a rest has been removed, how do I get it back???

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Select the first note from that voice, and untick the “starts voice” toggle in the properties.

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@MarcLarcher Thank you very much!

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You would actually want to go to the last note right before the removed rest and untick the ‘ends voice’ property.

I do wonder at times whether or not a “restore rests” command should be added to help people dig themselves out of holes when they are confused about how starting and ending voices really works.

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Doesn’t SHIFT+B Rests cover some of that already?