Convert standard notation to mandolin tab

AndreasKågedal wrote >> add a mandolin tab staff. Copy and paste the notes from the standard staff to the tab staff. Remove the standard tab.

This works, but but at added "expense." Mostly importantly—before removing the standard staff—if you've entered new notes standard staff (or edit them) you have to remember to copy and paste those changes to the tablature staff; and the tablature staff reverts to default fret numbers, meaning that your string assignments will be lost and you'll have to drag notes to the correct strings again.

If you plan to do further editing or note entry it might be simpler to do all your editing in a pair of linked staves: i.e a mandolin standard notation linked to mandolin tablature staff. Any notational edits make in one linked stave will instantly update the other linked staff. Later, if you don't want the standard staff in tow, you can copy/paste to a separate Mandolin tab-only document. (Sadly we can't yet create tab-only parts, nor can we hide either of the linked staves independently, though the idea has been acknowledged a valuable option.
  
  
Instructions for creating linked Mandolin staff in MuseScore 3 (as opposed to adding an independent mandolin staff):

1) make sure your mandolin score stave is set to MuseScore's Mandolin instrument:
        i.e. you have the following property for the staff:   Staff/Part>Instrument = Mandolin
2) press i to open the Instrument panel
3) enter "Mandolin" in the search field (mandolin is available but does not appear in the default list)
4) select the indented Staff 1 line "within" the Mandolin instrument. (This enables the Add Linked Staff button.)
5) Click the Add Linked Staff button
6) BEFORE leaving the dialog, in the Staff Type column, click the default Standard menu item
6b) choose Tab. 4-str. (Simple, Common or Full)
7) close the dialog and enjoy your linked staves configuration

If you skipped ... if you skipped step 6b) the linked staff will show standard notation! If so, you can select the linked staff to display as a tablature staff as described in Steps 4 and 5. (See NOTE below.)

Now, when you add or edit notation in the standard staff, Musescore will update the tablature staff, or visa versa.

NOTE: Simple, Common or Full are simply collections of styles imparted to the tablature staff.
You can find most the individual tablature staff settings in the Staff/Part>Instrument>Advanced Style Properties where the various properties are almost entirely about tablature.

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In the add instruments dialog, press I, search for Mandlin