Hi Annabelle The only solution I know, is to select each staff from start to end, cut and the paste it into a later bar. And so you have empty bars at the beginning. Regards Claudio > -----Original Message----- > From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of > Annabelle Susan Morison > Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:12 AM > To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [sib-access] Create Bars > > Hi, it's Annabelle. > I know there are keys for creating a single bar, a bar at the > end, and other bars, but how would I create bars and put them > at the beginning of a score. > Every time I try the Alt+B, it creates however many bars I > want it to, but it somehow puts the empty bars after the > first bar where there's music. How do I fix that, to where it > can ask me where in the score I want to put the bars? If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx