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Press "OK"

rather than clicking.

Right. The default is to have Show on top staff checked. You must have unchecked it.

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.

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.

You don't need a JW plug-in to swap layers. Edit menu, Move/Copy layers.

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:

Windows Explorer:

To answer your question, right-click on the file name in Windows and pick Rename.

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...

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.

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.

I don't have Finale 26 but with Finale 27 that file is in

C:\Program Files\MakeMusic\Finale\27\Resources

I've attached a copy for you (download, then unzip).

Installing Finale should have assigned .bakx to Finale, so I don't know what that didn't happen. Did you click "Mas aplicationes?" Do that, and hunt for C:/Program files/MakeMusic/Finale/27/Finale.exe. Or, open the file from within Finale from the File menu rather than trying to open it from Windows.

Thanks, Mike.

It might have to do with Windows Security. You could try going to Start > Settings > Update & Security > Windows Security > Virus & threat protection. Under Virus & threat protection settings, select Manage settings, and then under Exclusions, select Add or remove exclusions. Try adding C:/ProgramFi...

Chrome has nothing to do with it.

View tab in Windows File Explorer.

Where are you saving your changes to?

This might be best handled with Windows rather than Finale. Uncheck everything in Finale's Preferences/Screen Colors so that it's simple black with a white background, then check out the Ease of Access settings in Windows. Also try Googling

windows reverse screen colors

(As you can see I added a second treble clef as well.)

To create the layout in your attached graphic I selected the first 3 beats, and applied the staff style Slash Notation. I suspect this is the step babryanaton is not doing. It is slightly hinky. If you apply the staff style first and then run the cue notes plug-in, you get the quarter-note rest in ...

I recently did this exact thing with secco recitative (two characters sharing one staff), and did as Peter suggests and added a second bass clef to the repertoire of clefs. I strongly suggest this approach rather than using a "false clef," since with a real clef change Finale will automatically make...

Maybe you need Windows help. Not a Finale problem.

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The notes in the two hands must line up vertically, so where there are sixteenth notes in the right hand, the left-hand notes will be further apart. Nothing wrong with that, and what you have is normal and looks fine. The last system is a bit crowded, though, since you've got six measures where the ...

I didn’t know that—thanks