Measure properties
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The Measure properties dialog allows you to adjust various properties of an individual measure - such as visibility, duration, numbering and width ('stretch').
To change all measures on the score, use the settings in Format -> Style under the Score, Page, Measure numbers, and Measure categories. To change all measures of one staff on the whole score, change the staff's Staff/Part properties.
To open the Measure properties dialog, right-click on a measure and select Measure properties:
If you only want to adjust one measure, once you have made the changes you want, just click OK. If you want to adjust multiple measures, instead click Apply and then use the left/right arrows at the bottom left of the dialog to move between measures. The measure number being edited appears both at the top of the dialog and in the status bar.
Visible: uncheck this to hide this measure entirely on this staff
Stemless: check this to use stemless notation in this measure on this staff.
Nominal: this is the time signature set in the score (which cannot be edited here)
Actual: adjust these figures to increase or decrease the real duration of a measure, for example for a pickup bar (anacrusis) or cadenza.
Exclude from measure count: check to make the count skip the selected measure (this is checked by default for pickup bars, if you create one via the New Score Wizard)
Measure number mode: choose Always show or Always hide to override the score-wide measure number settings for this particular measure
Add to measure number: a modifier to the number this measure automatically receives, which will apply from this point on
Break multimeasure rest: break a multimeasure rest at this measure; see Breaking multimeasure rests
Layout stretch: see Layout stretch
Play count: this only appears if the measure is before an end repeat barline; it indicates the number of times the repeat section is played (defaulting to 2).
The play count of the measure with the end repeat barline must be set one higher than the number of times you want the measure to play (this is usually equal to the number of entries in that volta repeat list + 1).
Consider the following the score:
Measure 3 should have play count set to 4, and measure 5 should have play count set to 3.
Fixed Measure Widths for a workaround to ensure barlines are aligned vertically between systems.
Other measure-related pages:
