Working with staff presets

Making staff settings for your scores can be time-consuming. Staff presets allow you to reuse those settings whenever you work with a staff similar to one you have worked on before. A staff preset contains all the settings from the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog, except for the key.

• To save the current settings (including the settings on the Options tab, see below) click the Store button in the Presets section of the Staff page.

  Enter a name for the preset in the name dialog that appears, and click OK. The preset is now available on the Presets pop-up menu (in all projects).

  

• There are a number of staff presets available, set up to suit various instruments, etc. The presets are accessed from the Presets pop-up menu on the Staff page of the Score Settings dialog or from the staff context menu, opened by right-clicking on the rectangle to the left of a staff.

  Use them as they are, or as starting points for your own settings. Note that this loads the settings in the preset into the dialog – to apply these to a staff you must click the Apply button as usual. You can also apply staff presets directly in the score – see below.

• To remove a preset, select it from the pop-up menu and click the Remove button.