Won't let me hide staff

[Davidabb]

Hello All,

I am trying to hide a blank staff from a piece that I did not create. The systems are not locked and this staff is not part of a group.

Finale will not hide it when I tell it to. Any ideas?

Thanks!

(Finale 2011)

[Peter Thomsen]

I have a couple of ideas.
There are several possible culprits.

But without seeing an actual .mus document I can only guess.
I suggest that you attach a small (= max. 100 KB) .mus sample document that shows the problem.
Before you can upload a .mus document to this forum, you must compress it, e. g. as a .zip file.

[Davidabb]

Hey Peter,

I totally understand but this is not my piece of music. It is a copywritten score that I am working on for my company and I am not allowed to upload to the web. If there is any way you can give me your suggestions without the pic, I'd greatly appreciate it.

If not, I totally understand.

[Peter Thomsen]

In order to find the culprit we don't need the copyright music.

Make a duplicate copy of the .mus document.
Open the duplicate, select all the music, and clear it.
(and delete all text blocks, if necessary, to avoid copyright violations)

Then attach the - now empty - duplicate document here in the forum.
And specify the location of the blank staff you can't hide.

[Davidabb]

Aha! Didn't think of that! Will do tomorrow!

Thanks Peter!

[twistiejoe]

Damn. did you ever work out what the culprit was? I'm having this problem too.

[Peter Thomsen]

twistiejoe,

Unfortunately the user Davidabb never attached a Finale document here, so the culprit remains unknown.

Anyway, your own issue with a staff that you can not hide, may not have the same culprit as Davidabb’s problem.
If you attach a (small) Finale sample document here for the gurus to examine, then I am confident that the culprit can be found.

Before you can attach a Finale document in this forum, you must compress it, e. g. as a .zip file.
And the file size must not be more than max. 100 KB.

To reduce the file size you can
- Delete the music. We only need to see the empty staves.
- Delete all items in selection dialogs like Expression Selection, Articulation Selection, Chord Suffix Selection &c.

[at8ax]

[sidebar, after proofreading all day] I wonder if anybody ever told him that the past tense of "copyright" is "copyrighted"? [/sidebar]