If you plan to work on larger orchestral scores, you may become impatient with the time it takes the computer to redraw the screen after each change you make. Fortunately, Finale can greatly speed your work up by hiding the staves in Scroll View that you’re not currently editing. If you want to permanently hide staves, see Optimizing Systems later in this tutorial.
Let’s say, for example, that you want to work just on the Violin I and Viola lines; you want to hide the blank staves so Finale won’t waste time redrawing them.
Now that you’ve specified the staves, it’s time to program one of the Staff Sets.
As soon as you program Staff Set 1, the two blank staves vanish. They’re still part of the piece; they’re just hidden for the moment. Furthermore, you can rearrange staves in each Staff Set—dragging them up or down as much as you want—without disturbing the staff order in the “full-score” view.
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