>From the Playback controls dropdown you can specify that playback always
begins with measure 2 or what ever you need.

I do a lot of handbell arrangements and have worked out a process of
including the "bells needed" measure that appears above the first line of
music.

The basic process is to format the first measure of the piece with no key
signature, forcing precautionary accidentals, suppressing the meter
signature, bar lines and stems and the precautionary meter signature at the
end of the system.  When I am ready to format the page I place only that one
measure on the first line.  With meter and key signatures forced into the
second measure (at the "real" beginning of the piece) the page then appears
the way I want.  Remember to renumber the measures so that the first measure
of music (measure 2) appears as measure 1.

Guy Hayden, Minister of Music
St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
372 Hiden Boulevard
Newport News, Virginia 23606



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