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… As the picture shows, I go to Category Designer/ Tempo Marks and select all staves to make sure all staves are attached to tempo marks … I was about to say that we need to examine your actual Finale document, but then I looked at your - very revealing - screenshots: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: OMG I'...

As the picture shows, I go to Category Designer/ Tempo Marks and select all staves to make sure all staves are attached to tempo marks.


However, the marks are still missing when I try to edit individual parts(Document/Edit part/instrument).

I wonder why you are extracting parts? You can not use the linked parts instead? If you use the linked parts, then you will not get the problem you describe. Actually, I always use "Extract Parts" to generate individual parts and this situation has never happened before. I guess the process of gene...

Extracted parts come from linked parts, no? My guess would be that the staff list in the Tempo Marks category is wrong. It should look something like this: Okay, so now I'm trying to link tempo marks with all instrument in Category Designer to make sure the marks should be linked to all instruments...

Why all the tempo marks disappear when I extract parts from the full score? At first, I found that the marks are not just missing in parts but cannot be inserted too. So I checked the category designer where I found no staff is selected(I don't why the setting in the parts are wrong). Although I can...

Create a metatool which calls the original shape (To create it : Shift+key of choice and select the shape; to apply it, hold down that key and click in the score). As I said, each time you use the metatool, a copy is created which can be modified in the score. THANK YOU! Now I can reshape each copy...

In the Expression Designer, in the pane Shape you there is the option Allow Horizontal Stretching A) When {Allow Horizontal Stretching} is selected, the shape will adjust its width according to the measure width. Sometimes that is exactly what you need. See the attached example. B) When {Allow Hori...

define a metatool for the original shape. Each time it is used, it creates a copy Do you mean directly duplicating the shape in the expression selection? Or changing the setting of the chosen shape so that each time it is used, it creates a copy? The second option makes more sense to me. However, I...

Recently I am working on a contemporary score which has lots of new notations and markings, so I have to create new shapes through expression/shape designer. Although these shapes are inserted in different pages and places, they all change simultaneously when I adjust one. For example, when I adjust...

On the other hand, using a simple circle (created within Shape designer) is not appropriate, because when you stretch the shape, its initial part will become an ellipse. Thirdly, if we use a circle as part of font element with its full width, then when stretching the shape, it will separate from th...

I will allow myself to share an easy method for creating dal niente and al niente with the help of only "Expression Tool". Although Finale is very versatile program, it sometimes turns out that some of the basic features (those we find for years in Sibelius and recently in Dorico) are missing here....

I notice that the hairpin and small circle of neinte decresendo are detached. I wonder is it possible to create neinte attack through customer line tool? The custom line tool doesn't have the hairpins included, so I guess no. If you make sure the anchor points of the hairpin and the expression circ...

You can do these in Finale, with a bit of experimentation. For the niente decrescendo, you could use the regular hairpin and add the circle as a text expression. The pictured example uses the "degree" symbol, Helvetica Bold font. For the overpressure, the pictured example is a shape expression made...

In contemporary music, niente attack and increasing bow pressure are commonly used extended techniques. I try to create those notation by using smart shape, but just can't figure out how to create the shapes similar to the images below. https://img.onl/DSLePa https://img.onl/c21iFP It seems that the...

I just reset preference in finale and everything looks normal now...

You nail it! The missing staff appears in scroll view and now I can edit the staff attributes. The dotted line and small square also appear but they disappear when I switch to page view so I guess there is still something wrong with the setting... https://img.onl/h87cqc Anyway, now I can edit that s...

Looks like I accidentally changed the document setting of finale. I always hide empty staves to create more spare space on my score. Today I found a stave is missing and I couldn't find the bottom to show it (it should be a dotted line with a small square or something, which allows you to show or hi...