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Uncheck "Enable Chord Playback" in the Chord Tool menu.

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I was imagining the Vertical Position, which can occur between layers.

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Horizontally or vertically? Vertically, for me, is easiest done with the Simple Entry Tool and the up or down arrow keys. Horizontally with Special Tools/Note Position Tool by selecting the handle and nudging with an arrow key. It's probably vertically that you need.

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I don't believe Windows has a comparable shortcut. Mouse Click the OK button. Ctrl-Click activates all OK buttons on all open dialogue boxes. You might need to create a shortcut with TG Tools Keyboard Shortcuts, or use a third party program for keyboard shortcuts.

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A keyboard can only play sounds that are resident in the keyboard. The Garritan sounds are not loaded into your keyboard. If you have a keyboard that allows the Garritan sounds to be loaded there, then you need to load them into the keyboard. However, from your description, I don't think your keyboa...

Is this close?

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Question: In the "For Parts" Score, did you unlink the part in the Soprano Sax 2 part in the score Manager?

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Maybe this page from the Mac Documentation will help:

https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... s-text.htm

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Maybe I didn't explain the Mac process well, so here's a quote from the Documentation. Maybe this will make it clearer: Edit and Text menus appear on the menu bar at the top of the screen when opening the Lyrics window so you can copy and paste text, change fonts and styles, and carry out other edit...

I have it in v25 and v26. I am on Windows 10. In page view, the option is greyed out. In Scroll View, it is accessible. Maybe your preferences need to be recreated.

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My take on the original post was striking the letter keys on the QWERTY keyboard. The Feature request is that there would be a plugin for this, and that D would be the Do of the given key one was in. That's how I read it.

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If the notes are in one layer, and you have selected another layer, then handles won't show. I'm grabbing at straws here.

Also, what are the settings for handles in Preferences?

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Or, possibly there's MIDI Tempo Data overriding the Expression.

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Aha! Why in the world is there an option to remove the handles, which renders the tools useless? From the Mac Documentation (since the OP uses Mac): Show Handles. Choose this command to display a small square handle on each note, stem, beam, tie, or dot (depending on which Special Tools tool icon y...

In the Special Tools drop down menu there is an item called Show Handles. Is that checked?

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HOWEVER... I deleted the tenor sax from the indented list under Soprano 2 and that worked! Even better, selecting the appropriate range and setting it to tenor also worked! I was going to mention that I also tried that method in the Score Manager. I'm glad our discourse lead to a solution. Zuill

If you can upload your file here, we can probably find the cause.

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This has been requested by some of us for over 20 years. I don't see it coming any time soon.

If you need something different, you can create an expression to do it. Tedious, maybe, but at least you have an option.

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But what do you mean by the 'linked part'? The other soprano (doubling bass clarinet)? I don't quite follow what you're saying. Document/Edit Part should list all the linked parts. Parts need to be created first before you extract a part. All of your instruments are listed there. When all else fail...

That feature was not available in 2012. It was added in a later version. When I install a new version of Finale, that's one of the first things I uncheck.

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That tool is not for this kind of split. Finale doesn't have any built in options to do this type of "split" stem.

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I moved one of the noteheads to the right with Special Tools/Notehead Position Tool. I then dragged the Accidental to the right with the Accidental Mover Tool. Lastly, I added the extra stem with the Smart Shape Tool.

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The look in your picture is a little more work to do than the one in my picture.

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Don't know. I even tried (in v26) making the change in the linked part, as well as extracting the part and making the change in the extracted part. Both of those worked.

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After reading your post about 2014.5, I decided to try that. It still changed for me.

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