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Woo-hoo! That did it! Don't think I would have ever stumbled across that. Thanks, Zuill. You're my hero!

I am attaching a screen shot, as this might be a little hard to explain. Sorry about the small size, but had to fit it to the 1024 limitation. Also had to cut out page 9 in the example. By way of some context, this is from a song that is a debate number in a musical play. There is back-and-forth bet...

Thanks for the responses. I do use a large monitor, but it just echoes the same as the laptop monitor, so I don't think that would cause a problem, such as text moving to a second monitor. I tried shrinking the display very tiny, but still can't see more text blocks. The big text block is page-attac...

I find that text blocks I create sometimes disappear from view and access, both on the scroll and page views. I can see them with their IDs by scrolling through all text blocks using the Edit Text window. But there doesn't seem to be any way to change the Frame Attributes, which I assume might allow...

Thanks! I think just switching to Garritan will do the trick for my purposes. I can't hear a big difference with also adding slurs, and don't know if I would need the delayed note endings. I'm not sure why I had been avoiding using Garritan.

Wow! Three weeks and 78 views, but no ideas. Maybe it's not possible? Just thought I would check again to see if anyone has input.

Seems like I spend hour after hour trying to solve things that seem like they should have very simple obvious solutions! There, now that I've vented... I just want to get playback of string parts (same idea would apply to horn parts) that are legato; just as if the violinist just keeps his/her bow m...

Yes. That's how I want it to look! And seems to resolve the Text ID / Abbr Name issue. But, my question still remains: how do I get it to look like that? How do I have "Kbd 2" show up as a "Name" in ScoreManager, with the treble and bass staffs below it; like Piano looks? Probably a simple solution,...

Sorry. I was probably providing TOO much information. It was apparent to me that "Edit Text" wouldn't allow me to change the staff names. Looking there just helped me discover that the two different Abbr Names had the same ID number. Regardless of whether I change one of the two Abbr Names in Score ...

I have somehow gotten into a mode where the same Text ID is being used for two different Abbreviated Staff Names. When I change the value for one of the vocal scores, that same value also shows up for the treble clef of the piano score. When I look at info for those two staves in Score Manager, I se...

Ah, so THAT'S the trick! Thank you very much. Seems like I learn something new every day. Unfortunately, these days I seem to FORGET a couple more things every day. :-( I think I'll choose something other than "Choir Aahs" when listening to parts in the MIDI version. Sounds a little like the adults'...

Maybe this should be in the beginners forum? I feel like I'm ALWAYS a beginner, no matter how long I've been using Finale! I have several files, that I believe I created in basically the same way. But when I go to the ScoreManager to select instruments, I see two different ways of making selections....

Eureka! That solves it! It wasn't clear to me that you could just select measures directly from the score. Thought you had to use the little graph thingy. Actually much easier this way. Thanks to everyone for the advice!

An example file is attached. Here is what I did, using the MIDI tool, and my results: Select measure 1 - set all to 100 Select 3 measures (5-7) - scale from 100 to 150 Tempo only reaches about 116 Select measure 13 - set back to 100 Select 4 measures (17-20) - scale from 100 to 150 Tempo only reache...

Forgot about changing my profile info. I am now on Finale 25.5.0.290.

I am trying to use the Scale function within the MIDI Tool to create tempo changes, and it doesn't generate the tempos that I specify. For instance, if I select an area and enter "From = 90 ; To = 150" under "Scale Tempo", it creates a line that instead goes from 90 to about 135. I am selecting "Abs...

Maybe more of a general piano notation question than a Finale question. But maybe some pianist can help me. The attached screen capture shows two ways of notating similar passages. The first two measures have rests hidden. Maybe too confusing, as you have to depend on the spacing for timing? The oth...