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Rearrange staff order?

Is there a way I can rearrange the order of the staves? Say I'll be writing a piece with the fallowing parts:
1st Flute,
2nd Flute,
Clarinet,
Oboe,
Bassoon.
Then I decide to add a 2nd clarinet part. So I make a new staff and write the part. The problem is that the new 2nd clarinet staff is at the bottom of the page, and I want it to be next to the 1st clarinet staff.

Is there a way I can do this without copying and pasting and renaming all the staves?

Re: Rearrange staff order?

Reply #1 –
This question seems almost too simple and makes me think "Mmmm ... did ya even try".

Under the menu choice "Staff" (ya think)
there is a drop down menu with a cool feature called
"Move Staff Up" and "Move Staff Down"

And if you have a HUGE score, you can use just "Move Staff..."

I'm guessing this answer seems silly since I'm sure you've discovered this on your own once you really started thinking that the software was designed to be intuitively obvious.

Also amazing, is the feature has been around before NWC2.

Re: Rearrange staff order?

Reply #2 –
and there's Ctrl-Shift-Pgup and Ctrl-Shift-PgDn. That was it, right?

Re: Rearrange staff order?

Reply #3 –
Yeah, ok. I feel really stupid right now. Perhaps I should've read the help file first. Thanks.

Re: Rearrange staff order?

Reply #4 –
Checking Help is always a good idea, but don't worry if you forgot to look there before asking your question.  The forums are here so we can all help each other, and you aren't the first to have asked before checking - and you won't be the last.

Re: Rearrange staff order?

Reply #5 –
"So she was considering, in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), ..."

so you can go down a rabbit hole and feel stupid, and think nothing about it - you even might enjoy the adventure.