Dragging Staves

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mac1968
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Post by mac1968 » Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:12 am

I have extracted a bass part from a score. I am not able to drag the staves closer together. I am able to drag them further apart. In the full score I can drag staves as close as I wish. I simply want to drag selected staves a little closer to the one above them. Perhaps there is a setting I am missing, but I am very frustrated. Thanks for any help.


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zuill
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Post by zuill » Mon Jul 15, 2019 12:26 am

If it is just a one staff document (which it sounds like), then you need to go to the Page Layout Tool. What you are trying to do is to drag Systems closer together. You can manually drag the systems closer together. If the system margins are too big, you can make them smaller to get the systems closer together.

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Post by mac1968 » Tue Jul 16, 2019 9:44 pm

Great. That did the job. I appreciate your help.

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