Claudio and Annabel, I think I found something that would make it a bit easier. 1. Select any note in the first bar. 2. Insert a single bar using create/bar/single. 3. This puts a blank bar after the first bar. 4. Select the entire first bar and cut/paste to the new empty bar. If you want to do this for all staves, then select all the staves before the cut/paste. 5. Enter your new notes into the first bar. I think that's just slightly easier than moving all the music over by a measure, but you be the judge. Dave If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx