Cloning a Staff

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Cloning a Staff

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Sometimes you may want to clone (copy) an entire staff, such as to back up a staff before you experiment with some new musical ideas for that staff. The procedure for cloning a staff is simple.

prcarrow To create a new staff as a copy of another:

1.If the staff controls are visible, then click the Staff Selection StaffControlSelect button to select the first staff:

    StaffControlsWithOnlyPlayButtonOn

2.Choose the Clone Staff command from the Staff menu.

    Musician will display the Clone Staff dialog box.

3.In the Clone Staff dialog box, confirm the staff you selected in step #1.

    -- OR --

Select a staff that you wish to copy.

4.If you are cloning the staff for backup purposes, then you will likely want to mute the newly cloned staff. See Muting and Soloing Staves for instructions.