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by mmike
Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:30 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Copying multiple measures with many clef changes
Replies: 3
Views: 59

Re: Copying multiple measures with many clef changes

Before you copy, make sure you have selected "Copy Clefs: Always" in the Edit Filter
by mmike
Wed Feb 28, 2024 9:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file
Replies: 11
Views: 396

Re: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file

Good idea, but no, I checked (and disabled) all progammed shortcuts involving the spacebar etc., but that's not it. Any action to start playback (via menu, transport panel, or shortcut) switches to the last seen window. Weird ...
by mmike
Wed Feb 28, 2024 1:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file
Replies: 11
Views: 396

Re: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file

No, with whatever the previously open window was (any program, Thunderbird, Word, etc.)
by mmike
Tue Feb 27, 2024 8:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file
Replies: 11
Views: 396

Re: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file

motet wrote:
Tue Feb 27, 2024 7:22 pm
That does seem like a Windows thing.
Yes, it must be that, but why? I see no windows settings that might fix that.
well, one extra click ...
by mmike
Tue Feb 27, 2024 6:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file
Replies: 11
Views: 396

Re: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file

No, that's not it. I never use Human Playback. Example - I am looking at your post (Firefox browser), I posted a reply. Then I loaded Finale, chose a file, opened it, and when hitting Play the windows switches back to Firefox (Finale keeps playing). I can then click on the Finale window to see it ag...
by mmike
Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:33 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file
Replies: 11
Views: 396

previous Windows window popping up when playing newly loaded Finale file

This is probably some sort of Windows issue (something to do with focus" ?) that I don't really understand, but the following is an annoying occurrence: I am working in Finale and have some other programs loaded (usually Firefox and Thunderbird). Ever since (I think) from going to windows 10 and Fin...
by mmike
Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Acoustic Guitar Sustain
Replies: 5
Views: 2009

Re: Acoustic Guitar Sustain

Here's an example that seems to work just fine, using the Finale Classical Guitar Template, with the Pedal and Pedal Up articulations (Ped. and *). Human Playback is set to Standard.
by mmike
Fri Jan 19, 2024 7:06 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Explode Music doesn't include hairpin markings
Replies: 10
Views: 896

Re: Explode Music doesn't include hairpin markings

The JW Staff Polyphony Plug-in will do what you want. It splits the music and copies everything, such as expressions, articulations, smart shapes, even text boxes (and it doesn't matter what, if anything, you have chosen in the Edit Filter).
by mmike
Sat Dec 30, 2023 10:05 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: zero beaming
Replies: 18
Views: 5476

Re: zero beaming

You can also use JW Change. Select the region > JW Change > Note Entries > Beaming > Beaming Mode > Break Beam.
by mmike
Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Part format
Replies: 5
Views: 2735

Re: Part format

miker wrote:
Thu Dec 28, 2023 6:45 pm
Has anyone used it in 27? I can’t test it myself, because I’m on a Mac.
Works perfectly well in Fin 27 (and also before, at least from 2014.5 on, as far as I remember). It's very useful (for me, anyway), I use it all the time.
by mmike
Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: script macros in V27 help
Replies: 11
Views: 3203

Re: script macros in V27 help

jmus wrote:
Wed Dec 20, 2023 6:26 am
the notehead choice is limited on JW
Instead of using Shape and its Note Shape menu, have you tried Custom Shape (where there are more choices)?
by mmike
Tue Dec 19, 2023 9:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: script macros in V27 help
Replies: 11
Views: 3203

Re: script macros in V27 help

You can do it less "labour intensive" by using JW Change - make your selections and save them with the Sequence Editor as a sequence. You can assign a shortcut to bring up JW Change and all you have to do is click on Apply the sequence which will remember your steps and choice of notehead. Since tha...
by mmike
Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
Replies: 42
Views: 13275

Re: TGTools menu shortcut for ties

michelp wrote:
Sat Dec 09, 2023 6:30 pm
mmike seems to speak about 0 (zero) which enters the first frame (at least on the Mac)
indeed (also in Windows)
by mmike
Sat Dec 09, 2023 1:23 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
Replies: 42
Views: 13275

Re: TGTools menu shortcut for ties

I don't believe you can call them. But you can file a support ticket on their website and they will answer one on one, like email. Hmmm, all I found was a phone number on their support page. You have to do it from here: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us#finale. Bottom right - Get Help, you hav...
by mmike
Fri Dec 08, 2023 6:54 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
Replies: 42
Views: 13275

Re: TGTools menu shortcut for ties

There is a trial version of the full TGTools Installed it, the 0 keyboard shortcut for ties still doesn't work (even after adjusting various keyboard repeat settings) Back to the T. I think the real cause is the interference with that Finale pre-programmed setting for the 0 which opens and closes a...
by mmike
Fri Dec 08, 2023 4:22 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: TGTools menu shortcut for ties
Replies: 42
Views: 13275

Re: TGTools menu shortcut for ties

If you go to the plugin folder, the TGToolsLE.bundle file should show you the version number. Mine shows 27.08. So does mine. I have also experienced that problem with defining a ties shortcut to 0 in Speedy (as soon as I updated to Fin27.3, some time ago already). After trying various things I fin...
by mmike
Sun Dec 03, 2023 7:41 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Print to Adobe PDF
Replies: 11
Views: 2652

Re: Print to Adobe PDF

See this topic: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=22408
The only way to resolve this (for me), was to un-install 27.4 and re-install 27.3 (luckily I still had the original installer, unfortunately you won't be able to get it from their download page)
by mmike
Sat Dec 02, 2023 3:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Anyone know if the display of tuplet and note value in Speedy Entry can use a larger font?
Replies: 4
Views: 1511

Re: Anyone know if the display of tuplet and note value in Speedy Entry can use a larger font?

In Speedy Options you can change the percentage of "Use fixed scaling of" to a higher value, which increases the size of the numbers, alas also of the whole frame ...). But it seems that should work for you. No?
by mmike
Sat Dec 02, 2023 2:12 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Anyone know if the display of tuplet and note value in Speedy Entry can use a larger font?
Replies: 4
Views: 1511

Re: Anyone know if the display of tuplet and note value in Speedy Entry can use a larger font?

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking - size of the note heads? (I would imagine not ....), the size of the number you can change in Document Options > Fonts > Notation > Tuplet (it also works retroactively for tuplets you have already entered).
by mmike
Fri Dec 01, 2023 7:52 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 78265

Re: PDFs in 27.4

Here my response: Thanks for your reply. I know that I can work with the Microsoft Print to PDF feature, but it's really too bad that your "improvements" have ruined a widely used feature. After all, creating PDFs is, after inputting and laying out the music, perhaps the most important element to ac...
by mmike
Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 78265

Re: PDFs in 27.4

apparently it does ... furthermore: Thanks for contacting MakeMusic Customer Support. With the recent release of Finale Version 27.4, we have improved a long-standing issue in which exporting as PDF resulted in multiple save prompts when printing multiple parts. This behavior has now been fixed with...
by mmike
Fri Dec 01, 2023 6:25 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 78265

Re: PDFs in 27.4

all PDFs are now created via Microsoft: Print to PDF, regardless if done from File> Export, Print Menu or Graphics Export Pages and they all work (for me) and are exactly the same quality, but you have to set the correct page size first in File > Print > Setup. Have you checked that? But none of th...
by mmike
Fri Dec 01, 2023 4:35 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Print to Adobe PDF
Replies: 11
Views: 2652

Re: Print to Adobe PDF

As I've said elsewhere... It seems that all PDFs are created via Microsoft: Print to PDF, regardless if done from File> Export, Print Menu or Graphics Export Pages, and it has disabled the external Print to PDF function. I have been using PDF Creator and now also, as a test, Cute PDF. They don't wor...
by mmike
Fri Dec 01, 2023 10:09 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: PDFs in 27.4
Replies: 51
Views: 78265

PDFs in 27.4

Installed the whole new 27.4 program from my account page. It seems that all PDFs are now created via Microsoft: Print to PDF, regardless if done from File> Export, Print Menu or Graphics Export Pages. But nowhere do I see thiss upposedly new button for RGB/true black, etc. In addition it has now di...