Unable to Get Rid of the Blue Minus Signs at the End of a Measure.
NOT FOUND: Getting Rid of Blue Dash & Plus Marks 1.jpg NOT FOUND: Getting Rid of Blue Dash & Plus Marks 2.jpg I am having problems getting rid of the blue minus sign that appears at the end of a measure. I'm attaching two images. The first one shows what I have, and the second one shows what happens when I change the quarter notes to half notes.
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You have made the measure shorter than then time signature, probably by pressing ctrl+delete to delete a note. Press 5 then ctrl+shift+a to add another quarter note to the measure. You can change it afterwards.
Or add a time signature to this measure, which matches with the measure duration (3/4).
or open up the measure properties and change the actual duration
In reply to or open up the measure… by jeetee
I was wondering what caused my problem to happen - now I know. No more using Ctrl+Del to delete a note or rest...
In reply to I was wondering what caused… by skrontle@hotmail.com
Unless when you actually do want to shorten the measure of course ;-)
But yes, for turning music into silence a plain old normal "delete" does the trick.
In reply to I was wondering what caused… by skrontle@hotmail.com
To be clear: Ctrl+Delete is for removing time. Hence the current name in the menu, timewise delete. If you just want to delete the note and replace it with silence, use plain Delete. Deleting a rest makes no logical sense in itself - either you really want to delete the time it occupies, in which case Ctrl+Delete is exactly what you want (and the blue "-" will be correct), or you want to replace it with sound, in which case don't waste our time trying to delete anything at all - just enter the desired notes directly. but there is no other meaning for deleting a rest - you can't delete silence.
In reply to To be clear: Ctrl+Delete is… by Marc Sabatella
What I was trying to do was to delete a rest and then replace it with a note. Why I was trying to do that is something I'll learn in another lifetime...
Thanks for opening my eyes!