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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Delete All Page Breaks
- Replies: 9
- Views: 101
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
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- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
- Replies: 3
- Views: 71
Re: FInale Can't Change Durations without changing rhythm - Dorico Can
Sounds like maybe Dorico is a better compositional tool, letting you change your mind more easily. Maybe you should switch to that. They likely have a competitive upgrade. In my case I've worked out how the music will be notated before putting it into Finale, so don't notice these shortcomings. I th...
- Wed Apr 24, 2024 8:31 pm
- Forum: Beginners
- Topic: Problem with slurs
- Replies: 2
- Views: 39
Re: Problem with slurs
Most SmartShapes, including slurs, are applied by double-clicking and dragging. I'm sure you've put in hairpins. The slur (and a couple of others) has the additional shortcut of double-clicking to slur to the next note only, but that makes less sense for hairpins or trills.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
- Replies: 3
- Views: 76
Re: Library import/ export misses user-defined categories
I just tried exporting expressions into a library, then creating a new document without libraries, then importing my library. It seems to duplicate the built-in categories with empty versions of the same name, and indeed it omits some of my categories. The omitted categories were called Whole Note R...
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:08 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 67
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
Set up two measures of this, then use the copy command to replicate those time signatures throughout the piece.
- Tue Apr 23, 2024 4:04 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Alternating Time Signatures
- Replies: 2
- Views: 67
Re: Alternating Time Signatures
Finale lets you use a different time signature for display from the "real" time signature, so you can have alternating 4/4 and 3/4 measures, all using the same time signature for display, your side-by-side 4/4 3/4. To get that, use a composite time signature--for display--of 4/4+3/4, then in the doc...
- Mon Apr 22, 2024 9:32 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can't copy Title placeholder text.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 51
Re: Can't copy Title placeholder text.
The actual text block itself says "use the title as found in Score Manager/File Info, so you'll have to enter it there.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 7:17 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Please change the registration instruction wording
- Replies: 6
- Views: 140
Re: Please change the registration question wording
Agree "every other letter" is ambiguous. Maybe "first, third, fifth, etc."
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Finale Forum Feedback
- Topic: Please change the registration instruction wording
- Replies: 6
- Views: 140
Re: Change the registration question wording!
I'm wondering if this is legit.
- Sun Apr 21, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Unable to unhide a placed graphic image
- Replies: 3
- Views: 128
Re: Unable to unhide a placed graphic image
Bizarre.
I like to do all non-music "desktop publishing" things elsewhere and combine them with Finale output in a PDF program.
I like to do all non-music "desktop publishing" things elsewhere and combine them with Finale output in a PDF program.
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Is there a better way to handle enharmonic re-writing?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 125
Re: Is there a better way to handle enharmonic re-writing?
The best way is probably to do it yourself. You could use Finale or a plug-in to search for all B-sharps, say, but then decide to flip them manually or not yourself. Unless you have a multi-thousand-measure opera, say, this is probably not as daunting as it first may appear. (And if you're dealing w...
- Sat Apr 20, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: multimeasures resetting despite edits
- Replies: 2
- Views: 77
Re: multimeasures resetting despite edits
Only updating multimeasure rests where it matters seems like something they could rather easily fix. It certainly causes a lot of trouble. My own method is to leave the "update automatically" setting always off and start out with no linked parts--delete them if you have to. I then enter all the musi...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 2:16 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 209
Re: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
This works for me:
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menu item "Utilities/Change/Noteheads..."
check "X Notehead" near "change to"
press "OK"
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 7:57 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
- Replies: 6
- Views: 209
Re: Need help with my FinaleScript for X noteheads
Try
Press "OK"
rather than clicking.
Press "OK"
rather than clicking.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:59 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing Measure Numbers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 771
Re: Missing Measure Numbers
Right. The default is to have Show on top staff checked. You must have unchecked it.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:52 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing Measure Numbers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 771
Re: Missing Measure Numbers
Indulge me and try it. It only takes one click. I know what I'm talking about--I've used Finale professionally for 20 years.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 4:11 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Missing Measure Numbers
- Replies: 15
- Views: 771
Re: Missing Measure Numbers
In the measure region settings you've shown, check "show on top staff" (which should have been the default).
In the score, one generally doesn't want measure numbers on every staff, so "measure numbers" is unchecked in several of the staff attributes. "Show on top staff" overrides that.
In the score, one generally doesn't want measure numbers on every staff, so "measure numbers" is unchecked in several of the staff attributes. "Show on top staff" overrides that.
- Thu Apr 18, 2024 3:58 am
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: overlap instability
- Replies: 8
- Views: 216
Re: overlap instability
You don't need a JW plug-in to swap layers. Edit menu, Move/Copy layers.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 7:46 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: from .bakx to finale file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: from .bakx to finale file
You could search for Explorer, but double-clicking on any folder in Windows will open it in File Explorer. This is from one of your posts:
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 6:12 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: from .bakx to finale file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: from .bakx to finale file
Windows Explorer:
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:07 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: from .bakx to finale file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: from .bakx to finale file
To answer your question, right-click on the file name in Windows and pick Rename.
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 5:04 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: from .bakx to finale file
- Replies: 7
- Views: 143
Re: from .bakx to finale file
I suggest you treat .bakx files as they're intended: as an emergency backup in case you save your file when you didn't mean to, or accidentally do something without realizing it. It's good to have Finale automatically create them just in case, but I very rarely find myself using one. The couple of t...
- Tue Apr 16, 2024 3:31 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: Can't get dynamic shortcuts to work on french laptop
- Replies: 3
- Views: 85
Re: Can't get dynamic shortcuts to work on french laptop
You can reprogram those dynamic shortcuts ("metatools") to whatever you want. Hold down the shift key, press the new key, then pick the dynamic from the dialog. This is per document, so you might consider reprogramming the template from which new documents are made.
- Mon Apr 15, 2024 10:38 pm
- Forum: General Finale Help
- Topic: PercNoteTypes.txt is missing or corrupt
- Replies: 4
- Views: 103
Re: PercNoteTypes.txt is missing or corrupt
Might be a file permissions problem. Try right-clicking the Finale icon and selecting Run as Administrator. If that fixes it, you might want to rerun the installation as administrator, which I think MakeMusic suggests you do.