Finale Forum

Dear, may I now call you, Peter? . Looks like I spoke too soon. Sorry -- for both or all of us. Upon further study and experimentation, your suggested solution: 1] does not impact BOTH instruments of a duet, for example; it treats JUST the staff in question; 2] does not account for the transposing I...

Dear Mr. Thomsen: Shazaam [a la Gomer Pyle]! It works just as you instructed. Thank you. Sometimes with computer programs, one is in the moon until s/he discerns the programmer's perspective, paradigm or philosophy. So to speak, you got me looking in the right direction. However, there are a few foo...

Good morning. I thought I had posted this question last week. But I cannot find it nor a reply. Thus, I am re-entering. . Some help from my colleagues, please. I am basically a woodwinds' arranger, typically clarinet ensembles first. But I also do and play in other small mixed ensembles. For the sak...

Good morning. I need a little help, please. Topic: pick-up measures. . I am arranging a popular song, 1920's era, that has a broken measure at the end of the verse, in order to create a pick-up measure in the chorus. Each broken measure is half of a "regular" measure. The piece is in cut-time. . I f...

Dear Peter: Nice meeting you as it were; thanks for the counsel. Guess it is like the old song lyrics, "... looking for love in all the wrong places ..." It never dawned on me to look at the far RIGHT of the menu bar. Sure enough, just as you instructed, there are all the attributes of TEXT in that ...

Good morning. I am a new PrintMusic user whose primary interest is woodwind arranging. I am having some procedural trouble. . I want to do text editing -- but CANNOT display the text menu per se. Clicking or selecting the TEXT Tool from the Main Menu gives me ONLY a prompt; double-clicking produces ...