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* Are you using Capo Chords ?


Try with E## - my guess is that Finale will change E## to F#.

Explanation:
The culprit is
Chord menu > Simplify Spelling

Finale will always try to simplify "one" level, so if you want to enter (Cb), you can input it as (Dbbb), and your (Cb) will be there.

I think I figured out my problem. The default file that I was saving was named "Maestro Font Default.musx. That was for older versions and I was wrong in naming it that. It should have named it "Finale Maestro Font Default.musx". John Take a look in Preferences - New Is any Finale document specifie...

… I'm trying to design my own "Maestro Font Default" page, and the changes I make, don't stay. I save them properly but when I choose "New Default Document", I still get this page that has no libraries loaded, even though I have loaded and tried to save it as a "Maestro Font Default" default docume...

Not enough info.

the better we understand, the better we can help.

What are you trying to achieve?
How are you trying to do it?
What happens when you do that?
What doesn't happen that you expect to happen?

Welcome to the forum! Since everything is in the Bass Clef, there - strictly speaking - is no need for {clef change} clefs. To me it looks like the “extra clefs” serve the purpose of showing, what notes are sung by Figaro, and what notes are sung by Bartolo. One way to do it: In a Finale document yo...

What version of Finale? Windows Finale or Mac Finale? Unfortunately I am unable to reproduce your problem. To create the layout in your attached graphic I selected the first 3 beats, and applied the staff style Slash Notation. The staff style appeared on the first 3 beats. No slash showed on the las...

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Mon Apr 08, 2024 6:52 pm

… Simple entry gave me trouble, as you can see (m. 3) …

To end a measure with a tuplet, de-select the Simple Entry option
Check for Extra Notes

Unfortunately your attached graphic has a very low resolution - it is barely readable (at least for me, using the Opera browser).

If you could attach it again - with a higher resolution - then I am confident that we can help you much better.

… I'm looking for a way to force Finale to break beams according to the key signature … You probably mean “according to the time signature”. Unfortunately the time signature only breaks through all beams (primary beams, secondary beams, …). I do not know of a plug-in that can, intelligently, break ...

At the bottom of your post you tell that you are using Finale v27. But your Forum User Profile (shown to the right of your post) tells that you are still using v26. Perhaps it is time to update your profile. … The issues is with a double-dotted eighth followed by two 32nds … You probably mean “follo...

You could add the articulations to the template you use for creating new documents.

In that way you will automatically have the articulations in all new documents.

I've checked the page>format>score but nowhere is there a function to set all pages in that format. I've been through that menu a hundred times and thought I was double-checking the landscape format, but it only affects the first two pages and the first four systems of the score. I've had to do it ...

… On any beat other than the last beat of the measure … You are talking about the Simple Entry Tool - right? Actually you can end a measure with a tuplet. There are several ways to enter a tuplet - and to end a measure with a tuplet. The way you describe, will work, too, if you de-select a specific...

NB:
The default formatting is document specific, not program specific.
It is possible to have different default formatting in different documents.
This is by design, and what users have requested.
To get the desired formatting in all new documents, use a custom template.

1) There is a free maintenance update to Finale v27.4.1.146.

2) It is not clear to me what you mean?

Take a look at the attached graphics.

A or B?

… I’ve been a Finale user for thirty years and this problem has vexed me for all of those years. The first couple of pages appear in landscape mode and the rest in portrait mode in a different sized font … A wild guess: The {landscape} layout on the “first couple of pages” was customized manually, ...

Do you know Jari Williamson’s plug-in JW Meter and Rhythm ?

… more specific ~ Tuplet of eight underneath a contrapunkt of 16 tuplets in same system/akkolade Could you be even more specific? - what sort of tuplets? - quintuplets? - sextuplets? - septuplets? - Do the two tuplets begin on the same note? Creating a compound tuplet is easy with the Speedy Entry ...

Hi Burt, 1) In the video you filled the blank measures with Real Whole Rests. When you used Speedy Entry to reflow, you had selected the option {Check for Extra Notes}, causing the dialog box There Are Too Many Beats in This Measure to appear. Then, when you selected the option {Keep moving the extr...

Burt, The hyperlink in your latest post is a link to a graphic, not to a video - right? If I understand you correctly, the Finale document that gives you trouble, was created in Finale 2010 - right? Indeed you can get trouble when opening old Finale documents in a newer Finale version. However, in t...

BurtGoldstein, I have watched your latest video. This is an easy one. I almost dare not say the following - please don’t smack me. ;-) You forgot to change the 3/4 measure to a 3/2 measure (which you did in your first video). What you see, is that the 3/4 measure now contains to many note values (wo...

BurtGoldstein, I took a look at the video in your first post. What comes to mind: 1) Before you try to double the 3/4 measure, the document is already quite complicated, with tuplets and many different note values. It may very well be possible that somewhere a measure does not contain the correct nu...

1) In staff 2 you have not entered the Layer 2 notes. Before using the Note Mover Tool, complete Layer 2, to make the Layer 1 notes flip the stems upwards. 2) These steps work for me: Switch to Layer 1, Click the Note Mover Tool, Click in staff 2, in the first measure (handles appear on the Layer 1 ...

… I don't get moving note of second layer staff 1 into staff 2. But I have no a clear idea of the layers used in the image, really … I think the layout is easier to create “the other way around”: Enter the first 16ths in Staff 2, Layer 1. Then, move the first 16th into Staff 1. * See the attached F...

According to your Forum User Profile you are still using Mac Finale v2014 (shown to the right of your post).

Perhaps it is time to update your Profile.