Hi According to sibelius manual it is possible to create an aditional staff of a selected passage. For example: Two violins are playing two rhythmically nearly identical voices for a couple of bars; so it is best to write them in one staff. after that the voices get rhythmically and melodically so complicated, that it is best to have them split on two staves and then they calm down and return on one staff. The expression for this is: "divisi". How canI reproduce this scenario? I know, that I could just insert an aditional violin staff and after that just select hide empty staves to hide not used passages, but for the purpose of an XML-export test, I want to do it the other way. Many thanks Claudio If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx