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- Thu May 02, 2024 7:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Hiding a staff within a part
- Replies: 9
- Views: 237
Re: Hiding a staff within a part
The Force Hide Staff staff style is what you want, applied with the Staff tool while in the part. Select what you want to hide, but instead of picking the staff style by right-clicking, use the menu to choose Apply Staff Style To->Current Part/Score before selecting the staff style.
- Thu May 02, 2024 6:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Re-space music
- Replies: 1
- Views: 120
Re: Re-space music
Selection tool, Select All, then press 4 or use Utilities/Music Spacing/Apply Note Spacing.
- Wed May 01, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
- Replies: 1
- Views: 95
Re: Reset Text Expressions "Dynamic"
You can select an bunch of things and move to another category at once, if that helps. Then there's a function "reset to category."
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 8:26 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
That seems wise of them. I'm in the business of renting out orchestra music, and can tell you things are nowhere near universal usage of tablets (quite the opposite--about 1/4 of those I polled said they would want tablet versions alone). The biggest iPad, the iPad Pro 12.9 inch, is only letter size...
- Mon Apr 29, 2024 4:28 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Re: Forum unusually slow
Thanks! Just came to report that it seems better.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:22 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Re: Forum unusually slow
Still happening today. Can you alert the boss?
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
Landscape mode is going to be smaller for a single page, though, since it's not as tall. The largest iPad is a little smaller than an 8-1/2 x 11 page, though maybe there's some non-Apple higher-end viewers out there. I can't see fliping the iPad on its side during a performance. My colleague was usi...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Varying numbers of staves.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 287
Re: Varying numbers of staves.
Ah, very clever--a combination of staff styles and groups that only span partial measure ranges. A rather manual process that you'd have to wait until all the system breaks and staff hiding are done to employ, though.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:10 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: multi-measure rest setting?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 959
Re: multi-measure rest setting?
My guess is that you've unchecked "Show on top staff." You need that, because staff numbers are suppressed in the staff settings for most instruments so they won't show up in the score.
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 4:05 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Digital parts - how do they work?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 507
Re: Digital parts - how do they work?
My last gig I sat next to someone who was playing from a table and she had a way to scroll a half page, yes. Another thing to be aware of is that players, especially wind players, generally need a break once in a while, both physically and mentally, so I hope there are some rests. If it's just that ...
- Sun Apr 28, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 319
Re: Is there a simple way to make layered accidentals overlap?
In the worst case, you can hide an accidental with the * key in Simple or Speedy entry.
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Forum unusually slow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 390
Forum unusually slow
Today there's seems to be a long delay to load each page...
- Sat Apr 27, 2024 3:50 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Varying numbers of staves.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 287
Re: Varying numbers of staves.
Is there a way to have the group name disappear when there's only one staff?
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 7:20 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2293
Re: Lyrics Tool type into score and click assignment stopped working
In "suddenly stopped working" situations, the things to always try first are
1) Quit Finale and restart; if that doesn't fix it
2) Reboot your computer
1) Quit Finale and restart; if that doesn't fix it
2) Reboot your computer
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 5:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 484
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Does the Lua gang take requests?
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:05 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete All Page Breaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 420
Re: Delete All Page Breaks
Does it default to the whole document? Surely this is something done fairly rarely.
- Thu Apr 25, 2024 12:03 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Trick for aligning expressions and hairpins
- Replies: 1
- Views: 215
Re: Trick for aligning expressions and hairpins
Asterisk.
You're talking about shortcuts to TG Tools/Align-move dynamics, I think. On Windows, it's Alt+keypad-* to align to which ever option is set in the plug-in dialog, Alt+down-arrow to align and move down, Alt+up-arrow to align and move up. Try Option on the Mac.
You're talking about shortcuts to TG Tools/Align-move dynamics, I think. On Windows, it's Alt+keypad-* to align to which ever option is set in the plug-in dialog, Alt+down-arrow to align and move down, Alt+up-arrow to align and move up. Try Option on the Mac.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 11:58 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 484
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
I don't know what's "1990s" about it, but I suspect the reason there's no way to do that is that there's little if any call for it.BurtGoldstein wrote: ↑Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:48 pmSo if you've filled bars with dotted halves in 3/4 and want to change them to halves or quarters - back to one-at-a-time. So 1990s!
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete All Page Breaks
- Replies: 11
- Views: 420
Re: Delete All Page Breaks
No need for LUA:
Selection tool: Select all;Edit/Clear Selected Items/Page breaks.
Selection tool: Select all;Edit/Clear Selected Items/Page breaks.
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 484
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Plug-ins/TG Tools/Modify Rests:
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 9
- Views: 484
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Sounds like maybe Dorico is a better compositional tool, letting you change your mind more easily. Maybe you should switch to that. They likely have a competitive upgrade. In my case I've worked out how the music will be notated before putting it into Finale, so don't notice these shortcomings. I th...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Problem with slurs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 220
Re: Problem with slurs
Most SmartShapes, including slurs, are applied by double-clicking and dragging. I'm sure you've put in hairpins. The slur (and a couple of others) has the additional shortcut of double-clicking to slur to the next note only, but that makes less sense for hairpins or trills.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 239
Re: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
I just tried exporting expressions into a library, then creating a new document without libraries, then importing my library. It seems to duplicate the built-in categories with empty versions of the same name, and indeed it omits some of my categories. The omitted categories were called Whole Note R...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 244
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
Set up two measures of this, then use the copy command to replicate those time signatures throughout the piece.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:04 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 244
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
Finale lets you use a different time signature for display from the "real" time signature, so you can have alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures, all using the same time signature for display, your side-by-side 4/4 3/4. To get that, use a composite time signature--for display--of 4/4+3/4, then in the doc...