Claudio, Have you considered using an Ossia staff? Might do the trick. Dave Created in the Audio Recording and Mixing Studios, San Jose, California ----- Original Message ----- From: "Claudio Sacco" <cl.sacco@xxxxxxxx> To: <sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 07:21 Subject: [sib-access] creating an aditional staff only for a selected passage 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 If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx