X1: How to delete measures (with audio) on all tracks in middle of song?

I haven't been able to figure this out from help or other discussion posts or Sonar X1 Power.
 
As I am arranging a song and recording "scratch" tracks, I sometimes realize that a part, like a refrain, has too many repetitions of a chord progression, so I just want to snip out a couple of measures--or sometimes a whole section--out of a middle of a song.  Then I want everything else in the song to shift over to the left.
 
I've tried Edit/Delete/ Delete Hole, but can't seem to get it to work.  If I select all tracks, then use Delete Hole, it doesn't do anything.  If I delete all the audio in all the tracks first, then try Delete Hole, it still doesn't work.  What do you guys do for this?

Try putting some audio into the section you want to remove, and then delete it. That always works for me. I've never had any luck deleting empty measures.
 
Also, I would make sure the measures I wanted to remove were separate from the other audio by splitting the audio at the bar lines.

If I understand you correctly, I do this by deleting the measures then selecting everything to the right and using the slide function to move everything to the right place.  Or, drag and drop.

Once you have selected all the tracks and drag-selected the time range, just press the computer keyboard's Delete key.
Then drag the clips en masse.

Keni's nailed it.
 
If you check "Delete Hole", EVERYTHING will move to the left - events, markers, automation curves, tempo changes etc.
 
Of course, in order for this to work there must be data "in the hole" to delete.