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I'm inputting Harmonic Glissandi, and in order to get the stemless, beamless notes in a 4/4 bar, I have created quarter notes without stems and changed the stem head. However, I can't find a way to completely hide the beams. I can reduce their length, but there's still a speck of ink that I can't hide. There is probably a better way to create these notes. Any ideas about that or about hiding beams? Thanks!

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Assuming that you are using the "full Finale", here are some ideas:

1) You can create stemless notes via a custom staff style.
A custom staff style is a good choice for changing all the notes in a selected region.

2) To hide the stem of a single, individual note, use the Special Tools Tool sub-tool Custom Stem Tool.
Replace the stem with a custom shape.
In the Shape Designer, create an empty shape.

3) To hide beams, enter the notes as tuplet quarters, e. g. "4 Quarters in the space of 4 Sixteenths".
Set the tuplet to display "Nothing".

Thanks, Peter!

I'm trying show a specific scale I want used during a solo in the first bar of the solo and I ran across this post from 2014. Why? Because it's a double harmonic major scale and most players, at least the ones I know, don't know what that is. So I've tried to do as suggested below: I created an 8-tuplet fitting 8 quarter notes into the space of 8 eight notes. It works great til I try to enter that last (8th) note. I can't. If I get out of Simple Note Entry, a 16th note rest appears after the 7 quarter notes I've entered. I can delete the rest but I still can't enter that last quarter note, and again if I get out of Note Entry, 16th note rest reappears. As an alternative, I've tried using two 4-tuplets with 4 quarter notes fitting into the space of 8 eigth notes. The first tuplet enters fine, but I have the same problem in the second tuplet - it will not accept the final quarter note. Am I missing something obvious?

Oops. Sorry, I meant an 8-th note rest appears, not a 16-note rest.

In Simple Entry, enter your first quarter as an ordinary quarter, then press Alt+Keypad9 and pick 8 quarters in the space of 8 eighths. That should work.

(Alt on the Mac is either Command or Option--I can never remember which.)

Option. In fact, many Mac keyboards have both markings on the key.

Peter Thomsen wrote: 3) To hide beams, enter the notes as tuplet quarters, e. g. "4 Quarters in the space of 4 Sixteenths".
Set the tuplet to display "Nothing".

To hide beams, simply un-beam these notes, and than hide stems. You don't need tuplets actually, correct?

gbluhm wrote:it will not accept the final quarter note. Am I missing something obvious?

Un-check "check for extra notes" in Simply settings.

OCTO wrote:… To hide beams, simply un-beam these notes, and then hide stems. You don't need tuplets actually, correct? …

Actually, the faster way is to use the staff style Stemless Notes.
Both stems and beams will be hidden “at one fell swoop”.

The JW Change plug-in can also be helpful.
Stems -> Visibility -> Hide
Beams -> Visibility -> Hide.

Thanks to everyone for your help!

Motet, I tried your way and it worked. I didn't know about Alt-9 and I don't understand why it works and what I did doesn't, but who cares. But I did then have to manually remove the stems and the tuplet bracket. Of course, it only took seconds to do, but I tried Peter's method, which it turns out is extremely simple. I hadn't realized there was already a Stemless Notes staff style. I just used 8th notes and Stemless Notes and voila. As Finale used to say, and maybe they still do, there's more than one way to do something.

Thanks again!

Peter's is definitely the way to go. I was just answering the tuplet question.