Noob deleting empty measures question.

Hi all.
I've been using X3 Studio for a few months now and have found the interface simple and intuitive.  Any issues I've been able to overcome in either help or the tutorials, but this simple problem has got me stumped.
I have a few pieces all ready to go but before I export them I want to remove the blank/empty measures at the start of the work.
Simple I thought. Just group select the measures and tracks and right click "cut". Nup can't do it. I've had a look through help and the tutorials and can't find anything.  BTW:There is a mixture of midi and audio tracks.
Sorry if its a simple thing but its got me stumped. Any help appreciated.

Or, you could insert something into the blank measures e.g. a MIDI note.  Select the area and then use Delete Special menu option, check the Delete hole box, and they will be deleted.
 
Having said that, I do time select an area when exporting.  I type ctrl+A to select everything, drag my mouse along the time ruler to select area to export, and then export audio, entire mix (or whatever it's called), and Bob's your uncle.
 

Thanks for the help guys.  I was considering doing the delete the empty space from the master in another editor thing as that's what I used to do with Cakewalk 8 and Studio5 through Soundforge 14 years ago. I figured that must have changed by now.
I've still got Soundforge on a CD somewhere but there must be better utilities than that now. Or a new version.
I actually tried the select region to export but must have stuffed it up as it came back with an error "no audio selected" or something like that.
 
BTW I tried the insert midi events and then Delete Special / Hole for all tracks but that seemed to delete the empty measures for some Midi and Audio tracks but not others, stuffing up the track sync.  Ctrl Z.
 
If that's the way to do it that's the way to do it. No deleting of empty measures for me.
 
Thanks again for the help.

This is an area of Sonar that is the source of frequent confusion and frustration and needs to be fixed IMO. Deleting empty measures from a project is a common enough task that it should be easy and intuitive without having to rely on workarounds like inserting dummy MIDI events. And if you do a search on the forums there are loads of posts from people who couldn't get delete hole to work properly, myself included.

My +1, select everything on the section you want, cut and past to the blank measure your want it to start.  i.e music begin at measure 10:01:xxx so blank from measure 1 to 9, you want to copy everything from measure 10 through the end to measure 2.  Do Ctrl+A to select all, press G and enter 10 to the dialog box then click OK to goto measure 10.  'Edit>Select>From=Now' to select from measure 10, then Ctrl+X to cut, press G and enter 2 to the dialog box then click OK togo measure 2.  Select the very first track (i.e track 1) and Ctrl+V, voila you are done.  If you just Ctrl+V, it pastes to the next new track at measure 2 and delete all blank tracks above.

Hello,

My projects usually contain a mixture of MIDI and audio. If I want to delete a run of empty measures, I just copy a MIDI clip from elsewhere in the project into the empty space, usually using one that has data in it before and after the start and end of the measures. Select them, delete after checking the 'delete hole' box, and then clean out the bits of MIDI left either side of the (now non-existent) hole.

It's a bit of a faff, but has been foolproof for me so far.

Piers.