>> Just select the rest symbol in the score partbox and you can drag any rest >> you like onto your staves - dotted or otherwise. It IS in the manual (Mac) >> on 13-54 Manually inserted rests. >> >> Regards - Colin >> >> > Thanks Colin - but this seems such a stupidly long way round! (I'm having a > go at Emagic, not you Colin ;-) It means having to hide all the normal rests > and then replace each one manually... I forgot to add that you can copy those rests (also, use the "Copy Midi Events" dialog to copy one bar from a completely different place, like after the end of the piece, to any position any desired times) HTH Johannes --------------------------------------------- Johannes Prischl, Vienna/Austria check out the Logic Notation Guide, info at: http://www.t0.or.at/~jprischl/LNG_E.htm ---------------------------------------------