To hide staves for editing (Scroll View)

By hiding staves using Staff Sets you can view a selected number of staves on your screen for convenient editing. For example, in a full concert band score, if you would like to view your flute part and the percussion staves on-screen at once, you could assign these staves to a Staff Set to view them while hiding all the other staves. ote also that when you change the position of a staff in a staff set, it changes positions for all staff sets.

1. Click the Staff Tool  . Shift-click the staves you don’t want to hide. You can also select staves by drag-enclosing their handles or by choosing Select All from the Edit menu. In any case, the selected staves’ handles become highlighted.
2. While pressing ctrl, choose Program Staff Set from the View menu; from the submenu, choose one of the Staff Sets (1 through 8). You’re programming a Staff Set that, when selected, will hide the non-selected staves.
3. To view the new configuration of staves, choose the Staff Set you programmed from the submenu of the Select Staff Set command (in the View menu). Finale prints all staves, however, no matter which ones are visible in Scroll View; to omit staves in printing, see To hide staves for printing.

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