There have been no changes in the way you can use a selection in the score to focus on a set of staves, so you’ll still likely find it’s just as useful.

To help you choose only a few staves, or omit a few (depending on your need at the time), you can click the “Clear All” or “Select All” options from the list. If you untick them all, the score will revert to showing all the staves. Choosing more instruments from the list will add them to the focussed set. When ticking or unticking the names in the list, Sibelius will turn on Focus on Staves and only display those instruments in the score. Clicking the top half now toggles it on and off, and clicking the bottom half shows the list of staves in the score or part. As you can see, we’ve moved the Focus on Staves button out and split it to add the dropdown. Unchecking this option will enable the new workflow. When this is checked, you’ll get the existing behaviour, where using Focus on Staves will unhide any already hidden stave. The setting is tucked away in Engraving Rules > Staves and is called “Show hidden empty staves when using Focus on Staves”. This opens up several new possibilities to have scratch staves that you may use to work out rhythms, tidy incoming MIDI files or split out individual staves or even combined staves that you can still use in the parts. This release enhances the Focus on Staves feature so you can use both “Hide Empty Staves” and “Focus and Staves” at the same time.

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