Measures

To add blank measures at the end of the document

1. Choose Edit > Add Measures.The Add Measures dialog box appears.
2. Enter the desired number of measures. Click OK (or press ENTER).

To insert blank measures within a document

1. Choose any tool that allows regional selection. SeeSelecting music. 
2. Select the measure after the point of insertion. Even if there is more than one staff, click a single measure. NotePad will add a blank measure in every staff.
3. Choose Edit > Insert Measure Stack. A dialog box appears, asking how many measures you want to insert.
4. Enter the desired number of measures. Click OK (or press ENTER).

To erase or remove measures

1. Choose any tool that allows regional selection. SeeSelecting music. 
2. Double-click a measure to select the full measure stack. Highlighting should extend between the staves (or above and below the staff if there is only a single staff).
3. Press the DELETE key, or, choose Edit > Delete Measure Stack. This removes the selected measures from every staff. The result: your score contains fewer measures.

In general, when you remove a measure from the score, NotePad removes the measure in question from every staff in the score. Using the following technique, however, you can remove a measure from a single staff (in effect) by sliding the subsequent measures one measure to the left.

To delete a measure from a single staff

1. Click the Selection tool , and click the next measure after the measure you want to delete.
2. SHIFT+click the last measure in the piece. Or, hold down SHIFT and press the END key.
3. Drag the first selected measure to the left, so that it’s superimposed on the measure you want to delete.
4. Click OK (or press ENTER). NotePad moves the music you selected one measure to the left, in effect eliminating the measure you wanted to remove. There may now be an extra measure at the end of the staff; just erase or remove it (see To erase or remove measures).

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