Finale Forum

Please let me know if I am right or not but I think I may have found the "solution" that keeps this from happening. In the past, when I changed (or "confirmed") the time signature on a scanned piece, I have been "right clicking" on the mouse and then using what we might call the short-cuts to set th...

Thanks for your response. I really do appreciate it. For me, this is not an issue with rests. My issue is with notes. Dotted half notes becoming half notes tied to quarter notes. Dotted quarter notes becoming tied quarters and an eighths. Dotted eighth notes becoming eighth notes tied to sixteenth n...

OK, among other matters this was so irritating that I spent the $$ and upgraded from PrintMusic to full blown Finale 2012. Now I have to ask how do I set preferences (or whatever it is called) so that my dotted notes don't get automatically converted to tied notes. I do appreciate the help. I really...

I am using PrintMusic on a PC (version 2011a1). When I either scan or manually enter dotted half notes, dotted quarter notes, dotted eight notes (etc.) and subsequently confirm the time signature (or change the time signature), all the dotted notes are turned into tied notes. A dotted half note beco...