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By default, MuseScore arranges your sheet[br]music to optimise available space

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and also to avoid collisions. [br]However, from time to time,

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you may still want to make [br]manual adjustments of your own.

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All the functions that affect layout [br]can be found in the "Layout" palette.

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The most important of these are [br]the break functions.

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In this example, I want this measure to [br]move down to the next system.

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To do this, I can click on the barline [br]where I want the break to occur

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and then select this "System break" element. [br]This places a system break icon on the score,

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which you can simply delete if you want to[br]return the score to how it was before.

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The "Section break" is an element [br]that can be used to specify

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where you’d like a new section to occur.

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This new section will return the[br]measure numbers back to one.

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It's worth mentioning that if you'd like to[br]set a final barline at the end of this section,

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you can do so by clicking on the line [br]and then choosing the "Final barline" option

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in the "Properties" panel. You can also do [br]this using the "Barlines" palette.

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Lastly, you can use the "Page break" [br]element to move all measures

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beyond the point it’s inserted [br]to the next page.

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If you want to toggle off the visibility of these [br]"System", "Section" and "Page break" icons,

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you can do this by selecting the "Formatting"[br]setting in the "Properties" panel.

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And don't worry, [br]whether or not you do this,

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these icons will never be visible [br]in your exported or printed sheet music.

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Sometimes, you may wish to alter [br]the space between staves.

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To do this, there are three different [br]"Spacer" arrows in the "Layout" palette.

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Once applied, you can click [br]and drag these arrows

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to finely adjust the vertical [br]space between staves.

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Now we’re going to look at working with[br]Parts. If you have more than one instrument

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or voice in your score and want to create[br]individual parts for each of them,

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the first place to start is by clicking on this [br]"Parts" button at the top of the score window.

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This triggers a dialog that shows all the [br]available parts in your score.

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Now if you want to open more [br]than one part at a time,

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simply hold Shift to select [br]a range of instruments,

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or Control (or Command on a Mac) to [br]select a number of individual instruments.

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Then click "Open Selected". If you want to [br]open all available parts at the same time,

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all you have to do is click "Open all". [br]And you can see that they’re now all visible

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as tabs above the score.

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The "Parts" dialog is tightly integrated [br]with the new "Instruments" panel.

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This integration makes it easy for you [br]to create and customise parts

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with any combination of [br]instruments from your score.

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Say you want to make the violin 2 [br]part visible in this violin 1 part.

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First, let’s select the violin 1 part [br]so it’s visible in the score window.

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Obviously all we can see at the [br]moment is the violin 1 stave.

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So next, we’ll go over [br]to the "Instruments" panel,

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where we can see all of the [br]other instruments in this score.

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Notice, however, that they’re all [br]currently showing as “not visible”.

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To make any of these instruments visible in[br]this part, simply click on this visibility icon.

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Now our Violin 2 stave is [br]showing in this part for Violin 1.

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We can rearrange these instruments, by clicking[br]and dragging them in the "Instruments panel",

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so they appear in whatever order [br]we want in this particular part.

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The best thing about this is that this in [br]no way affects how the main score looks.

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Sometimes you’ll want to create [br]individual parts from a score

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where different instruments [br]or voices share a single stave.

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For example, to create a separate part for[br]each of the two voices on this flute staff,

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open the "Parts" dialog and [br]click "Create new part".

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We’ll double-click on this [br]new part to rename it “Flute 2”.

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Now hold control (or command on a Mac) [br]to select both of these parts,

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and click “Open selected”.

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This new “Flute 2” part is currently empty,

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while our original Flute part contains [br]both voices from the main score.

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What we want to do is hide the second[br]voice in our original Flute part,

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and reveal it in the “Flute 2” part.

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So let’s start by going [br]over to the Instruments panel.

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Click on this icon for the available part, [br]and select this settings button

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then uncheck the box next to voice 2.

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Now we can only see voice 1 in this part.

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Next, we’ll go over to the “Flute 2” part,

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and reveal the flute instrument [br]in the "Instruments" panel.

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We’ll again go over to this settings button, [br]and this time, uncheck the “voice 1” box.

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Now we can see voice 2 [br]in our part for “Flute 2”.

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The last thing we might want to do is [br]export these parts as individual PDFs.

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Go to File > Export. [br]This triggers the “Export” dialog,

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where you can see all of the [br]available parts in your score.

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You can use the checkboxes to select [br]only those parts you wish to export,

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or you can select them all at once by[br]clicking this "Select all" button.

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We’ll leave the “Format” settings [br]as they are which, by default,

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will export each part as a [br]separate file in the PDF format.

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When you’re ready, click “Export” [br]to choose where you want to save your files

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and you're ready to go!

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The "Instruments" panel [br]is new to MuseScore 4,

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and while it already allows you to really [br]customise your score and parts,

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we look forward to developing [br]it in future releases

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to make it even more [br]powerful and useful.

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