I agree that it's [expletive deleted] annoying. I understood it to be related
to copying Staff Styles, but I can't get any rhyme or reason out of it.
You have the right solution, though. Just before you go to work on the parts,
select the Staff Tool, Select All, then go to the Staff menu and
Something I cannot understand, but you all probably have covered it
long ago, concerns Staff Styles in the newer versions. I'm on
MacFin2011 but I think this was true of 2010 also.
After having put in Staff Styles such as slashes on the score for
various parts using chord symbols, when I go
I found with this that when putting them in (F2010) that it's necessary
to select Add Staff Style to score and parts or whatever it's called
from the context menu. I don't think just the metatools enables this
automatically, sadly.
Otherwise (in my experience) they have to be re-entered for
