Hiding/Showing rests before the first note in voices

You can manually hide/show rests before the first note in voices from the previous barline.

Note

You cannot hide rests before notes that are not the first note in a voice in the selected staff, or if the previous note in the same voice does not have rests hidden after it.

Procedure

  1. Select the first note in the voices before which you want to hide rests. You can do this in Write mode and Engrave mode.
  2. In the Properties panel, activate/deactivate Starts voice in the Notes and Rests group.

Result

Rests are hidden before the selected notes from the previous barline when Starts voice is activated, and shown when it is deactivated.

Tip

Alternatively, you can delete rests from passages of music. Deleting rests sets the Starts voice and Ends voice properties on notes at the start/end of rest passages so that no implicit rests are shown.