Kevin, If a bar is selected and then if you chosse select more "shortcut alb+Shift+A", the whole bar will be selected inclusively staff items like barlines and staff lines. This selection method is very handy for example to delete empty bars at the end of a score. Move to the first empty bar, select to the end, Alt+Shift+A, and finally delete and the empty bars disappears. Regards Claudio -----Original Message----- From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Gibbs Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 1:08 AM To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sib-access] Re: deleting every thing on one stave Steph, Assuming that you only want to delete the notes and rests in one staff without deleting the staff itself, do the following: 1. Make sure that you are in the staff whose notes you wish to delete. 2. Under the Edit Menu, select the Select submenu and go to Select Bars. 3. You will be in a dialog with a from and through box. You'll be in the through box. Type the number of the last bar whose notes you wish to delete. 4. Tab to the next box. Usually, the first note of the score will be selected in that box already. If you want to delete from some point within a score that is not the beginning, type the number the bar at which you wish to start your deletion. There is no way to begin your deletion at a point within a bar using this command. 5. Tab to the box that says make system selection and be certain that it is not checked. This is important because if you have checked it, not only the notes, but also the very staves will be removed which will change the number of bars in your score. 7. Tab to and click OK. You should find that you have empty bars on the staff whose notes you wish to remove. As far as I know, this select command was not in Sibelius 3. I just discovered it myself and I think it's very cool. There are also select all and select more commands. I've done some fiddling with the select more command and, as far as I can tell, if you are on the first beat of a bar in one staff and choose select more, the entire bar will be selected. However, if you are at the first beat of a bar in more than one staff, say a piano, for example and select more, nothing seems to happen. Finally, it also appears that if you are on a beat other than 1 in a bar and select more, nothing seems to happen. Anyone else feel free to chime in and correct anything I've gotten wrong here. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sib-access-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Stephanie Mitchell Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2008 5:13 PM To: sib-access@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sib-access] deleting every thing on one stave Is there a way to delete every thing on one stave? Steph 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 If you wish to unsubscribe, send a blank message with the single word, unsubscribe - in the Subject line to: sib-access-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx