Changing the length of staff labels project-wide

You can show full, abbreviated, or no instrument names in staff labels project-wide depending on their context in each layout independently.

By default in full score layouts, full staff labels are shown on the first system of each flow and abbreviated staff labels are shown on subsequent systems. By default in part layouts, staff labels are not shown on any systems.

Procedure

In Setup mode, choose Setup > Layout Options.

The Layout Options dialog opens.
In the Layouts list, select the layouts in which you want to change the length of instrument names in staff labels in one of the following ways:
- Click Select All.
- Click Select All Full Score Layouts.
- Click Select All Part Layouts.
- Click Select All Custom Score Layouts.
- Ctrl/Cmd-click individual layouts.
- Shift-click adjacent layouts.
By default, the layout currently open in the music area is selected when you open the dialog.
Select Staves and Systems from the Category menu.
Select one of the following options from the Staff labels on first system menu:
- Full
- Abbreviated
- None
Select one of the following options from the Staff labels on subsequent systems menu:
- Full
- Abbreviated
- None
Click Apply, then Close.

Result

The staff labels are changed project-wide in the selected layouts.

Tip

You can change both full and short instrument names in the Edit Instrument Names dialog.

Note

Your per-layout settings for staff labels apply to each flow, not the whole project. For example, if you want to show full staff labels on the first system in the first flow in your project, but do not want to show full staff labels on the first system of subsequent flows, you must change the staff labels at the start of each subsequent flow individually.