Add or change measures results in thick line with number above
Suddenly when I add measure(s), either prepending or appending, instead of getting a new empty measure(s) I'm getting one measure with a thick line in it, with a number above the line. The same happens when I change time signature from 4/4 to 3/4. See the attached score. So far this is the only one where it's happening. And it didn't happen with this one the first dozen times I worked on it; just started yesterday.
I've been using Musescore for a few years and never encountered this. It happens no matter how or where I add measures. If I start inserting notes in the problem measures, they revert to normal, so I can still work.
Any idea why this is happening and how to prevent it?
Thanks!
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On the page in Settings->Style you have the box "more rests" set to checked. If you remove the "checking " then the "2" disappears.
This is called a "multi-measure rest".
Most commonly, it is used in the individual Part of a multi-part score (think an orchestral work). To shorten the individual part scores, the instrument might show this if it drops out for a period. While in the conductor's score, it will show just empty measures, or leave that part out for a page, depending on the number of measures that the individual instrument isn't playing.
In MuseScore Studio, it is a setting that you can toggle on or off ... and you have it toggled on. Go to Format / Style / Rests and uncheck the Multimeasure rests box. Or you can use the shortcut, set (by default) to Ctrl+Shift+M.
You may have changed the shortcut, intentionally or accidentally. Or it may still be set to M, as it was in previous versions. To identify the shortcut (and change it, if you want), go to Edit / Shortcuts and search for "toggle multimeasure rests" (without the quotation marks, of course). If the shortcut is still/again set to M, that probably explains how it got toggled on: you inadvertently hit M when you intended to hit N to go into note entry mode.
In a score with only one or two instruments, it is fairly unusual (though not unheard of) to use the multimeasure rests at all, at all. However, even in a score with lots of instruments, you probably want to toggle this setting off until very nearly the end of creating and formatting your orchestral score.
In reply to This is called a "multi… by TheHutch
Thank you both. That fixed it.
I must have toggled the shortcut inadvertently because I didn't do it on purpose.
I spent an hour yesterday evening and again today reading the manual and searching online for an explanation, though I wasn't sure exactly how to describe the issue. I should have posted sooner, as all is well now. So thanks again!