Light grey "Minus sign" over bar and bold bar line
Hi
Not sure what I pressed, but a light grey minus sign appeared over my bar, between two notes and the bar line turned bold black. When I copy and paste the bar to a new score so I can share it, the minus sign and bold bar line disappears, but a note is added where the minus sign used to be. I tried removing the bar and inserting a new bar, but the minus sign shows up again. Any idea how to remove the minus sign?
Comments
Note: A small - or + sign appears above the measure when its duration is different than indicated by the time signature.
https://musescore.org/en/handbook/3/measure-operations#duration
In reply to Note: A small - or + sign… by Shoichi
Oh thanks. Any idea what I did to cause this? Usually when I want to change the duration of a measure, I go to time signature, but then I get a time signature change for that measure. Is this like a time signature change?
In reply to Oh thanks. Any idea what I… by Shirly Lyubomirsky
You may have pressed Ctrl+Del on a note or rest
In reply to You may have pretted Ctrl… by Jojo-Schmitz
Yap
In reply to Oh thanks. Any idea what I… by Shirly Lyubomirsky
Pressing Ctrl+Delete is like changing the "actual duration" of a measure in Measure Properties. It's like a time signature change without actual changing time signature - like to have one random measure have only three beats in a 4/4 piece without actually showing the 3/4 time signature. One example of why this might be useful - a three-beat pickup. Another would be for the last measure of a piece that has a one-beat pickup, in music that uses the old-style convention of shortening the last measure to account for a pickup.
In reply to Pressing Ctrl+Delete is like… by Marc Sabatella
I will start using it intentionally.