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I have a problem with Finale 27.3 for Windows. In a 3/4 time section of the score, Finale puts in rests correctly for one of the voices but not for the other voices. Finale does not let you delete incorrect rests. I have tried a number of tricks, including rebooting, but nothing works. Please explai...

Between Finale 98 and Finale 25 for Windows, measures would automatically adjust to accommodate the notes, accidentals, and so on entered in them, That ended with Finale 26 and 27. There are lots of places where you can specify exactly how much space should be between notes and accidentals and many ...

I want to shorten the value of the last note in a measure and change the meter to match the measure's revised contents. When I try to do this, Finale for Windows 27.3 permanently pushes the last value of the measure (a 16th rest) into the next measure _before_ the new meter signature, where the eras...

In Finale for WIndows 27.3, if you use Patterson Plug-ins Lite to beam over barlines, what happens is what you see in the first two staves of the example below. If you copy and paste the second staff, what happens can be seen in the third staff below. This may be due to a class inheritance issue, bu...

I started using Finale in 1998. After installing v27 I discovered layout infelicities (such as accidentals overlapping or crashing into previous notes, dyads of seconds that both claim priority on a shared stem and cover each other up, etc.) that never happened in Finale 98 or any other Finale versi...

Thank you, Peter Thomsen. I used your suggestion by putting in a new voice, all rests of the same "denominations" as the notes in the vocal line, and assigned lyrics to that line. A pain, but despite a couple of unexpected complications, it works.

When I upgraded to 27.3 for Windows from 26.3 it broke tremolo display. In the image you can see that it is notated as before in voice 2, but is notated incorrectly in voice 1. How can this be resolved? I'm on deadline, so any help would be much appreciated.

Searched the forum but found no discussion of this issue. If a note in a vocal line has been resized, sometimes the corresponding syllable gets a smaller font when click assignment is used. Also, if the entire underlay has been set in one font size and a note is resized, the font size of the corresp...

I got the tuplets I wanted using the speedy entry tool with the keypad. Clunky compared to the tuplet tool -- you have to keep deleting unwanted triple-dotted 64th rests, etc -- but the tuplet tool thinks it's doing the math right, so it doesn't work, whereas the speedy entry tool lets user actions ...

What Boldest06 does works for me. Many thanks!

I need help getting Finale 26.3 for Windows to notate a tuplet. I've tried this unsuccessfully many times, using a computer that has just booted Windows 10 and with Finale 26.3 just opened. In a section barred in 3/4 I want one measure to have five quarter notes. The first thing I do is place a quar...

I appreciate that forum people take the trouble to answer, but the reason I began the post with the statement that I was looking for a response from a user who doesn't have an option key is that Mac users do not seem to realize that Finale for Windows is different software. It simply doesn't work th...

To me, when notating keyboard music layers and voices amount to the same thing. Layer is a Finale concept. Voice is a musical concept. I do dumb things, but I was definitely in layer 2 and with the smart shape tool set to slurs I double clicked the first note to create the incorrect slur. See also m...

MMIKE, that did the trick! Brilliant! Thank you!!

Once Cyrillic text is present in a file the note-mover tool does not allow notes to move in Finale 26.3 for Windows. If note-mover is selected and you click on a measure, all the notes are assigned drag boxes, as you would expect, but the drag boxes are non-functional. If all Cyrillic text is remove...

Is there a way to copy text boxes from one document to another in Finale for Windows? For instance, if you've created a certain title layout in one file, is there a way to copy the text box it's in and then paste a copy into another file? I don't see any options to copy text boxes, and when I copy t...

I have a document created in Finale for Windows that has a ghost measure for its first measure, as shown. finale-m1-no-rest.png Nothing has been done to alter the measure -- for instance, no attempt has been made to begin with a partial measure. Notice that there are no rests in the measure. Similar...

Finale for Windows 26.3 is somewhat dysfunctional when triplets occur in two voices on the same staff. There are so many examples of arithmetic miscalculation that they're hardly worth mentioning -- a few minutes ago I was trying to enter a 3 8th-note triplet and after placing the first note, instea...

Follow up. A couple of weeks ago, I asked for help entering Cyrillic lyrics in Finale 26.3 for Windows, and a knowledgeable gentleman provided the trick to get this working. While that solved the question I was asking, it also taught me all the other problems that Finale has when lyrics use Cyrillic...

Here's a question for users who don't have an Option key: can Finale 26.3 for Windows notate triplets when a measure begins with a rest? The version I have goes to great lengths to avoid notating a triplet, especially a quarter/eighth triplet, even predictably completing a 4/4 measure with rests to ...

This is a further response to wessmusic's expert discussion of handling Cyrillic lyrics in Finale 26 for Windows. As one might expect from the level of detail in wessmusic's response, his workaround is spot on. Here is the first bar of a song in which I followed his advice. finale-cyrillic-m1-before...

Thank you so much for taking the time to provide such a detailed, knowledgeable answer! I'm out of town today, but I can't wait to try out the two workarounds you give. I'll let you know how it goes. Thanks again!

Thank you, David, for your reply. The platform I am using is a 2021 Dell laptop that came with Windows 10. As mentioned in my original post, when I type or paste directly into Text areas, Cyrillic shows up just the same as Roman. When I type or paste directly into Lyrics, whether into the Lyrics "te...

I am using Finale 26.3 on Windows 10. I am trying to create sheet music for a Russian song. I have not done this before, so I may be missing something. Or not. The text fields in the score are Cyrillic-friendly. I can paste or type Cyrillic into them without any issue. The lyric fields, on the other...

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Mon May 23, 2022 7:21 pm

I don't understand your description. Perhaps you can do it with pencil and paper and upload a picture.

Bill Steven's first answer is what I can't figure out how to do on Finale 26.3 for Windows.