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Designing your score: additional techniques
Dragging staves
3. Drag downwards or upwards and release the mouse button.
The new distance is set for the two staves.
Setting the same distance between staves in several systems
1. Hold down [Alt]/[Option] and drag the desired staff as described above.
2. Release the mouse button.
The corresponding staves in all following systems are moved accordingly.
Moving one staff only
You may want to move one staff without affecting any other staff in any way:
1. Hold down [Ctrl]/[Command].
2. Drag any staff as described above.
Moving staves between pages
By using the “Move to Next/Previous Page” commands on the Staff context menu, you
can quickly edit the page breaks.
Moving staves to the next page
1. Locate and activate the staff you want to move to the top of the next page.
This can be any staff except the first staff on the page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff, and select “Move to Next
Page” from the context menu.
The active staff (and any following staves on the page) are moved to the next page.
Moving staves to the previous page
1. Make the staff at the top of the page the active staff.
If any other staff is active, the “Move to Previous Page” option cannot be used.
Also, the function does not work for the first staff on the first page.
2. Right-click on the blue rectangle to the left of the staff, and select “Move to
Previous Page” from the context menu.
The active staff, and as many of the following staves as there are room for, are
moved to the previous page. If the previous page is already “full”, nothing happens.
Dragging apart the staves in a piano system.