Staves

This entry contains information on adding, moving, spacing, deleting, hiding, and recovering staves. See also: Staff lines; Staff names; Groups; Staff size.

The term "staff" is sometimes used interchangeably with the term "Instrument," although they are not always the same. A piano, for example, includes two staves. Adding, removing, and editing staves is generally handled in the context of working with Instruments in the ScoreManager. See Instruments for more details on Finale's definition of an Instrument.

Note: See Working with instrument staves for a step-by-step tutorial on adding, removing, and reordering staves.

When selecting a staff, you can either click the staff’s handle or the body of the staff itself (to the right of the clef, time and key signature). Drag-enclose or SHIFT-click to select as many staff handles as you want. (You can also SHIFT-click selected staves to remove them from the selection.)

To hide staves

See Hiding staves.

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