Hi everyone,

I'm trying to figure out if there's a way in Finale 2014.5 on a Mac to only hide staves when they're not in use (in a full orchestral score), and 'condense' the score by repositioning the music, etc.

My current circumstance - I'm orchestrating a theme & variations.  The initial theme is scored for woodwind quintet, first variation is scored for strings only (as examples for this post).  I want to hide all staves not being used (brass, strings, percussion, etc) until they're introduced as the orchestration moves along - and I also want to move the music over in the places where those hidden staves are to save page space because It doesn't make sense to have full score pages with a ton of empty measures.

I've tried to delete staves & reposition, but I lose the entire staff.  Whenever I hide the staves, that empty space where the staff was still exists.

Has anyone worked out a way to hide the staves and reposition staves in this manner?  Is it possible in this version of Finale?

Thanks for any help!