separate parts for separate voices
would be nice to be able to extract separate parts for different voices on a staff. I already have to use huge paper just based on the number of instruments including having more than one part on several staff lines: soprano 1 and 2, alto 1 and 2, tenor 1 and 2, bass 1 and 2, oboe 1 and 2, clarinet 1 and 2, bassoon 1 and 2, trumpet 1 and 2, horns 1 and 2, horns 3 and 4, trombones 1 and 2. Adding 11 lines to a score that's already comprised of 24 staves and won't fit on any printable paper size is not acceptable, nor is writing out all the parts by hand. Defeats the purpose of even using scoring software.
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It's not there yet, but some work has been done during GSoC2016 that could facilitate this in MuseScore 3 (which is still far off though)
It looks like this will become easier once 3.0 is released, but that date is still distant, but there is a way to do what you would like. It will take copying and pasting but not much else.
When you say voices, if you mean you wrote the staff in 2 voices, then you will need to:
Create 2 new staffs for your part (soprano 1 and soprano 2 e.g.)
Copy voice 1 only to soprano 1 (use the selection tool F6 and uncheckvoice 2)
Copy voice 2 only to soprano 2 (check voice 2, uncheck voice 1) don't change the selection tool yet.
select all of the destination staff for soprano 2 and select Edit|voices|Exchange voice1-2 from the menu. The easiest way to select an entire staff is to select the first beat of the staff and press ctrl-shift-end
reselect the entire staff and press delete to remove all of the rests from voice 2.
check voice 1 again on the selection tool.
Make sure all dynamics and ornaments are correct on both staffs.
Do this for each "Instrument." You can keep these new parts at the end or put each additional part under the existing part.
Extract the parts from the new staffs you made, not the original ones..
Press the I key and mark all the new staffs as invisible.
You now have a conductor score and individual parts.
You don't even need to make the new staffs not play because you will not be able to tell the difference in playback.
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If you used one voice for both parts because they have the same rhythm, then you can copy the staff with both parts to the first new part, and the second part must be the next staff on the instrument list.
Select the entire staff (you can have all voices selected, it won't matter).
From the menu select Edit|tools|Explode and you will have the two parts on the two staffs.
You can then extract parts and hide the extra staffs as above. You shouldn't have to fix dynamics or ornaments because they should be identical on both lines.
If I wrote something that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll explain.
Since you don't mention it, I just wanted to ,make sure you are aware that you can make staves smaller to fit more of them. That's how most large ensemble scores are published - relatively small staves on large format (eg, 11x17") paper.