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Apparently the stem settings for the staff don't apply to rhythmic notation. Instead, edit the staff style Rhythmic Notation, where you'll find a "stems up" option.

You'll have to redo any changes you made to the preferences, that's all.

It seems Finale stores other state information in that file, and that's where the bugs manifest.

Oh, good. You should be backing up your computers, though.

Sounds like you accidentally deleted it. Look in the Recycle bin. There also might be a .bakx or .asvx file that will help. I hope you've made backups during those two years.

I'm not much of a lyrics user though I have used it some. It seems kind of ancient and flakey. Look in the lyrics window and see if you find your undertied lyrics there. You may have to click-assign them again.

There might be a .bakx file that's usable, but you may be out of luck and your file may be corrupted. I'm guessing you accidentally hit some wrong keys--easy to do--or maybe hitting Ctrl-S every few seconds did it. Use the Autosave feature in the future--no need to constantly save. Every 10 minutes ...

I'm surprised that Note Performer doesn't do the correct thing with articulations pedal markings.

Try going to the Selection tool, selecting all, then doing Edit/Clear Selected Items and pick MIDI Data (only). Sometimes pitch bend commands get in there somehow, especially if you entered music with your Roland or imported it from elsewhere.

If you mean typing K to get "Keyboards" here, click on that column first. But you might as well just click Keyboards.

I'm not sure where your pressing K (a Mac thing?), but if you're sure you're experiencing a sudden change in the way Finale's keyboard shortcuts work, try these things in order: 1) Restart Finale 2) Restart the computer 3) Reset All Preferences on the Preferences page If you've made any customizatio...

I think you're right that Finale is wrong here (I've never used Transpose All Key Proportionally myself). In my opinion Minor Key is best avoided in setting up key signatures. It can cause other problems as well--unnecessary key-cancelling accidentals at key changes is one, as shown below. I use Maj...

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Is the font in the target the same as in the source?

I agree it doesn't make sense. Does anyone one know what Copy Clefs When Clef Changes means? The documentation says "Choose When Clef Changes to copy the clef only when there is a clef change within the original selected region," but as far as I can tell that's not the case--it behaves the same as "...

Turn on the filter. Edit the filter in the source document, click All, and select Copy Clef: Always. Then copy, then paste into the target.

Such tweaking of measure widths or manual spacing is best done at the very end, after you are through adding music. Then you can turn off Automatic Update Layout and the Multimeasure Rests setting prior to tweaking.

If it used to work then you likely had the audio settings set to something different. Experiment. There's the audio driver as well as the output source. There aren't that many possibilities.

I have a vague memory of this happening before. Did a forum setting get changed?

Assuming you're running Windows Security, disable McAfee and see. But it's mysterious that resetting preferences would cause it. Does resetting preferences mess with the audio setup? If it's pointing to some non-existent device, that might explain it. In Preferences/Folders, are all the settings poi...

I use current page all the time.

I don't know why, if you're checking "Do not change the number of systems on each page," it's changing the number of systems on each page. I just tried it with one of my pieces and that didn't happen, even though there were pages where more systems would fit had Finale been so inclined. I'm also ske...

Finale doesn't pass down settings from version to version, no.

In Space Systems Evenly, you probably want to check "don't change the number of systems on each page."

I'm not sure what you mean. If you use page breaks where necessary, then you can Space Systems evenly for all pages at once.

Automatic Music Spacing is a good thing to leave on until you're doing final tweaking at the end. For your hymn I doubt you need to turn it off.

It may be that each new version has Automatic Update Layout off. It wouldn't be the first stupid thing they've done.