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Designing your score: additional techniques
Hiding/showing objects
Graphic notation
By hiding bar lines, you can produce graphic notation.
Hiding notes meant for playback only
If you have recorded your music, you may have added glissandos, falls, etc. that sound
fine but result in a lot of unnecessary notes. You probably want to hide those notes
and insert the suitable symbols instead.
Hiding
To hide items, proceed as follows:
1. Select all the items you want to hide.
2. Select “Hide/Show” from the Score menu or click on the “H” (Hide) button on the
extended toolbar.
• Notes can also be hidden by selecting them, clicking the “i” button on the
extended toolbar and ticking the Hide Note checkbox in the Set Note Info dialog
(see
“Other note details” on page 795).
Hiding in the current layout only
If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout, hold down [Ctrl]/[Command]
when selecting “Hide/Show” as described above.
Ö You can also move hidden objects to the layout by right-clicking the “Hide” marker
and selecting “Move to Layout”.
Viewing hidden objects
The filter bar (shown by clicking the “Set up Window Layout” button on the toolbar
and activating the Filters option) contains two options related to hidden objects:
• If you activate the “Hidden Notes” option, all hidden notes in the score are shown.
Deactivating “Hidden Notes” hides the notes again.
• If you activate the “Hide” option, all hidden objects (except notes) are indicated by
a “Hide” text marker.
Showing one object
1. Make sure that “Hide” is activated on the filter bar.
2. Click on the “Hide” text marker below the object you want to display again.
The text is selected.
3. Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The object appears. Undo is available if you change your mind.
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If the Hide option in the filter bar is activated, hidden objects are shown in gray so that
they are still visible and you can select them.
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This is not possible when hiding notes, only other symbols.