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Designing your score: additional techniques
Hiding
To hide items, proceed as follows:
1. Select all the items you want to hide.
2. Select “Hide/Show” from the Score menu or click on
the “H” (Hide) button on the extended toolbar.
• Notes can also be hidden by selecting them, clicking
the “i” button on the extended toolbar and ticking the Hide
Note checkbox in the Set Note Info dialog (see
“Other
note details” on page 607).
Hiding in the current layout only
If you want the hiding to be “local” to the current layout,
hold down [Ctrl]/[Command] when selecting “Hide/
Show” as described above.
Ö You can also move hidden objects to the layout by
right-clicking the “Hide” marker and selecting “Move to
Layout”.
Viewing hidden objects
The filter bar (shown by clicking the “Set up Window Lay-
out” button on the toolbar and activating the Filters option)
contains two options related to hidden objects:
• If you activate the “Hidden Notes” option, all hidden
notes in the score are shown.
Deactivating “Hidden Notes” hides the notes again.
• If you activate the “Hide” option, all hidden objects
(except notes) are indicated by a “Hide” text marker.
Showing one object
1. Make sure that “Hide” is activated on the filter bar.
2. Click on the “Hide” text marker below the object you
want to display again.
The text is selected.
3. Press [Backspace] or [Delete].
The object appears. Undo is available if you change your mind.
Showing all objects
If you select “Hide/Show” from the Scores menu again, all
hidden objects are displayed.
• You can also use the Reset Layout function to perma-
nently display hidden notes and objects, as described in
the section
“Reset Layout” on page 674.
Showing a hidden note
While all hidden notes can be made visible by ticking the
Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar, you may want to
make some of them “permanently” visible again:
1. Activate the Hidden Notes checkbox on the filter bar.
2. Select the notes that you want to “un-hide”.
In the Preferences dialog (Scores–Use Colors for Additional Meanings)
you can set the color for hidden notes.
3. Double-click one of the notes.
4. Deactivate the Hide Note option in the Set Note Info
dialog and click Apply.
Coloring notes
You can use the color pop-up menu on the toolbar to col-
orize selected notes, e.g. for educational purposes. This is
described in detail in the section “Coloring notes” on
page 608.
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If the Hide option in the filter bar is activated, hidden
objects are shown in gray so that they are still visible
and you can select them.
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This is not possible when hiding notes, only other
symbols.