To group staves

1. Click the Staff Tool  . The Staff menu appears.
2. Select all the staves you want included in the group, then choose Add Group and Bracket from the Staff menu. The Group Attributes dialog box appears.
3. Select a staff from the Staff and Through popup menus to set the starting and ending staves for the group. All staves in between will also be part of the group.
4. Use the settings in the Group Attributes dialog box to set the group name, bracket, and barline for the new group. For more information, see Barlines,  Brackets: Staves, and Group Attributes dialog box.  
5. Click OK to confirm your changes.

Note: You can also group and ungroup staves in optimized systems in Page View if you need to change the definition of a group on a system-by-system basis. For information on optimizing, see Optimizing systems.

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