I need help with laying out my orchestral score
I have Musescore version 1.2 Revision 5470.
I am doing a full orchestral score and I don't see all of the instruments I originally set up. More than likely, I should have put all similar instruments on the same staff but I didn't. There are some many staves I can't even begin to see the stings much less the low brass. Can someone help me, please/
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If you have more ataves than fit on the page, common sense suggests you need smaller staves or a bigger page. Both parameters are controlled in Layout / Page Settings. Page size is obvious enough; to make smaller saves, reduce the "Scaling" setting (aka "Space", because it is literally the size of the space beween saff lones).
Make the page bigger. Create groups of instruments. Print out parts for groups of instruments.
Make the page big so you can fit everything on it, hear it all playing together and still see the score. Don't worry about printing anything yet.
Arrange your instruments in groups either by a looking at a traditional score or by putting the brass at the top or whatever takes your fancy. Just try and group things together in a logical way. Press i to call up your instruments list if you want to move things around.
When you want to print out some parts to try them out (it's always great if you can get a few trumpeters or string players to play their parts to give you a bit of feedback) you go to File -> Parts -> New and then check the boxes of the parts you want (Violin 1, Violin 2, Cello etc.), give this part (or group of parts) a suitable name and then Create Part. You can also use Parts in this way to just work on the strings or the brass for a bit but you'd need to copy everything back to the main score and not change any tempos or add in any measures, repeats, Voltas etc. so overall it is best if you compose on the full score with the big pages and create parts for rehearsal, printing.