Creating dotted whole note rest in 6/4

[AltoTenor]

Hi Friends,

I'm new to Sibelius, due to Finale being discontinued.

Does anyone know how to create a dotted whole note rest in 6/4 time?
I tried clicking on the Note Input Tab.
Displayed the Note Keypad, clicked on the whole rest, but I don't see an option to make the rest dotted.

This should be easy. Can someone please help me?

Brandy

[laurencepayne]

You dot a rest same way you dot a note. Select the note, press 'rhythm dot' on Keypad 1.

But why do you want a dotted whole note rest in a bar of 6/4? That's a full bar. Correct notation is a Whole Bar rest. Looks like a whole note rest but centred in the bar. You'll get one by simply deleting everything in that bar. Or you can add one from Keypad 2.

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[AltoTenor]

Hi Laura.

Thanks for your response. Part of my score is in 6/4. Other parts have different time signatures. In each measure with rests, I like the beats to add to the time signature for that measure.

Brandy