Cutaway scores
A cutaway score is one in which staves
can begin and end in mid-system, appearing and disappearing in the score
as necessary.
It’s easy to create scores in Finale
with full-width staves that are present in each system only when they
contain notes; see To hide empty staves.
Such staves still occupy the full margin-to-margin
width of the system, however. If you want a staff to begin or end halfway
across the page (when the other staves in the system continue all the
way to the page margins), you can hide the portion of each staff you don’t
want to appear using Staff Styles.
To hide
a portion of a staff
- Click the Staff Tool , and select the measures
that you want to hide. See Selecting
music for more information on selection methods.
- From the Staff menu, choose Apply Staff Styles To > Score and Parts (or Current Part/Score). The Apply
Staff Styles dialog box appears.
- Select Hide Staff (Cutaway) and click OK. All
the staves in the selected region will be hidden. To clear the Staff Style,
re-select the measures and choose Clear Staff Styles From (and then the desired score/part option) from the Staff menu. Alternatively, you can Control+click the highlighted region and choose Hide Staff from the context menu.