Showing rest colors

You can show implicit rests and explicit rests in different colors.

Procedure

Choose View > Note and Rest Colors > Implicit Rests.

Result

Rest colors are shown when a tick appears beside Implicit Rests in the menu, and hidden when no tick appears.

When rest colors are shown, rests in your project appear gray if they are implicit, and black if they are explicit. For example, this can be useful to help diagnose why rests do not disappear when you activate Starts voice and Ends voice, as these properties only hide implicit rests.

Once you have identified rests as explicit rests, you can delete them. The implicit rests that replace them now respect the Starts voice and Ends voice properties.

Example

Figure: Rests colored black, as they appear without implicit rests shown

Figure: Rests colored gray to indicate implicit rests