Score Editor: Reduce size of individual chord symbols?

The Logic chord fonts - bless them - have always produced very unwieldy symbols when you add a bass note, as in the examples below. I am always aching to reduce the size of the invidual chord symbols ( Eb over G ... Eb over Bb) because they clutter up the score, while keeping the other chords the same size.
Is there any way whatsover to do this? The Resize Tool does not seem to work on them. Nor are Chord Symbols convertible to plain text objects - either severally or individually ( as the Song Title is).
All suggestions welcomed
M S
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if i understand you correctly, you would be advised to use a different score style to hide the rests, and the format tool to drag bars into different positions.
you might consider also using the global format constant spacing, or limiting the number of bars displayed on a line.
there are lots of ways round this - you also can insert a user barline that will hide it on print out. one thing you can't do is drag a barline. perhaps more detail about what you are trying to achieve might help if this hasn't answered it for you.

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