Score edit: staving problem

Question

OK, it's a long time since I've needed to use the score edit. I have a string section; when I view it as a score both first and second violins are shown with treble and bass staves, as if they are piano parts. I cannot reduce them to a single staff. I'v looked at score styles...no success. The whole thing is driving me nuts. Why is this so difficult?!
Thanks.

Answer 1

i'm good mate. currently on holiday in oz. just stealing a glance here to see how everyone is going...
you should be choosing a single stave style such as 'treble' from the default score styles menu. you click hold over the score style for the particular staff you have selected. double click to edit the score style. the rest should be self-evident.
if you are finding that 'treble' is opening with 2 staves, then that is because that has been saved with that song - so something must have been set up in the template you used. simply open the score style editor for treble, and select the stave/voice by making the little ">" into a block in the left hand column and you should be able to delete it.
if things aren't happening as you would expect them to, i would check to see the song isn't corrupt by trying it in a fresh factory autoload.
corrupt songs seems to be a very common problem these days, but you check to see whether it is the case first.
also, saving as a pdf is absolutely the thing to do. i always save to pdf (print - save as pdf in the left hand corner of the print dialogue box) before i print - ie i print from pdf rather than direct from logic. if you make a mistake with a pdf then that is far more efficient to delete and correct than throwing out reams of paper.