| Dear Bill, This is something jazz writers need to do all the time, and there are a couple of ways of using layers and staff styles to do this. The way I do it most often is to enter the notes into layer 2 (while making sure that the document options do not freeze the stems, ties and rests of that layer when there are no "notes in other layers" - see document options - layers). Then I enter quarter note rests (usually, that's enough rhythmic detail for chord anchors) into layer 1 and then choose "blank notation - Layer 1 from the staff styles, making sure that that staff style is defined to show items attached to notes. When you apply this staff style to the staves which already have your music, plus the now ugly overlay of quarter rests in layer 1, the quarter rests will disappear, and the stems, ties & rests, of the notes in layer 2, even if they have been frozen into places you didn't want while the rests were showing, will now revert to the normal default, and you can now type in the chords you need in any quarter note "place" in layer 1. This should work fine, and becomes pretty easy after doing it only a couple of times. There are more sophisticated ways of using the layers in such a way that one can copy the chords and their anchors to new places that contain music in layer 1. In this case, you need to create a blank staff style in another layer (usually layer 4) that has a few more requirements, but unless you have to transfer chords from place to place, over different music entries, this is probably more than you'll need. Try the easier method first. Hope this helps. Chuck On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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