Select the staves with Staff Tool. In the Staff Menu, select Groups and 
Brackets>Edit… and uncheck Show Group Name.

Christopher


> On Mon Oct 3, at MondayOct 3 9:00 PM, Michael Dutka <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Hi folks. Running 2010 on a MacBook Pro (following all your threads on new
> releases and_terrified to upgrade. But I digress).
> 
> Working on a piano reduction of an orchestrated opera, and as you all know,
> when you add a piano to the instrument list, the default creates a grouped
> treble and bass staff set with the standard piano bracket. The default
> group name is Piano, and the abbreviated name is Pno.
> 
> IMHO, Pno. looks weird, and intelligent musicians don't really need us to
> tell them a piano score is a piano score. So, I tried to erase the group
> name and abbreviation. I tried everything I could find in the staff menu,
> highlighting the group, erasing both names and leaving them blank, etc. It
> only erased the name for the specific system I was working on. The opera is
> dozens of pages long, with only 2 - 3 systems per page, so working system
> by system would take a great deal of time and bother, and I was trying for
> a global solution.
> 
> I tried starting at the beginning, it made no difference. I tried just
> highlighting the box near the name Pno., and it deleted the bracket as
> well, which I want to stay there.
> 
> It's not a crucial thing, but it's a presentation to a regional opera
> company that might perform the piece if they like it, so I would like to
> present it in the best way possible.
> 
> Anybody have any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks and best,
>                        Mike
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