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Noteheads can be mass-changed in this window: https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... GNOTHD.htm
Use „Find“ - „Selected notehead2 and „change to“ - „selected notehead“ and enter the desired values.

Use Chris' Reinitialization of baselines plugin (you need JWLua for that). Works like a charm. See on Jan's site #17, or register directly on the french forum where Chris' scripts can be downloaded.

Waiting for Finale to implement it, you have the options to create the note shape denominator only as a shape expression, or the whole TS, as I did (and then having to give extra space at the beginning of the measure). But the extra space is given already, as the true time signature is moved off pa...

And in case you haven't installed the JW Change plugin: go to the score manager and click into the "M" column in the row "Layer 2" do mute this layer in this staff:

First, enter the notes into layer #2. Then, select Show active layer only and replace the noteheads with "X" or diamond noteheads using the Change Noteheads dialog box.

Is there a way to remove all accidentals from a large group of notes that's faster than manually correcting each note? Yes. If you can install and use the JWLua plugin within your Finale 2014, this script does what you want: for entry in eachentrysaved(finenv.Region()) do for note in each(entry) do...

Is the notation Cm7-5 generally known in Anglo-American practice? Or is it more typical of Scandinavian (European) usage? I never saw it in Anglo-American music, but I saw it a lot in German sheet music from the 1950-1980s. Using a "-" instead of a flat is a historic practice which tends to disappe...

Melisande wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 26, 2020 9:23 pm

I am typing lyrics directly into my score. How do I add diacritical marks (like umlauts)?

Press the Alt key and enter the Unicode number on the number pad. E.G. for "ä": <Alt>0228.
See this page for all Unicode numbers for german umlaute.

gdgross wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 17, 2020 3:19 am

I'm aware I could easily add extra staves, but I'm after as few page turns as possible, and a single chart for the whole band

Yes, of course! The extra staves can easily be hidden, so they won't need any extra space.

Peter already answered your question. I make a lot of lead sheets with "extra" stuff like rhythm notes above/below the staff etc. Sometimes I'd like to hide the ledger lines for the extra stuff and retain them for the main notated melody. You might consider using an extra staff for the extra stuff ;...

Speedy Entry is not horrible to use, but you have to learn some hotkeys and input tactics to benefit from its power. I can strongly recommend to use it with a MIDI keyboard and set up a hotkey for slurs - then speedy is by far the fastest and most accurate entering method in Finale. To replace a qua...

Jay - that's a strange error. I (and probably others as well) would like to have a look into the file. Could you post a few bars showing the error? Thanks.

That should be possible, I imported files of comparable sizes. Two questions:
1. How do you know that it's 7200 notes?
2. Can you post the file (or a similar one) for testing?

You need to construct the box from smart shapes, too. Then extend the arrow line to the left so that its starting point is in the same measure and at the same position as the boxes' right border line.

If Update Layout then changes the measure's width, both smart shapes will stay attached.

Trashing the preference file has helped other people in comparable situations:

How to do it: Resetting Finale's preferences (using a tool crashes Finale, etc.)

e.g.: window with sharps, flats, naturals, etc has disappeared

The real source of frustration with Finale on a laptop for me woud be the small screen size, not any other technical spec. 17'' or the like is not enough to display enough music to work senseful in Finale, as is my experience. Working speed in Finale depends highly on the ability to copy things; thi...

Hector's bug aside, has anyone seen this notation of cancelling and then reintroducing the same sharp or flat when there's a mode change? "Behind Bars" doesn't mention it, and I don't think I've ever seen it. It's odd that there's not an option to turn it off in Finale. I wonder if it's even intent...

Thanks for reminding me about that. I recall to have heard of that technique years ago, but I seldom used it. But did you know this trick? I could find nothing about it in the documentation. It's mentioned e.g. in the FInale 2014 manual: To change an existing marking to a different one using a Metat...

Is there a way to tell Finale that in speedy, when I hit =, top ALWAYS tie the entire chord? The answer to your question is no, unfortunately. I would like such a command, too. On Windows, I programmed a hotkey within a macro program called Autohotkey. It sends "Arrow down" 10 times, triggers the t...

Gwyn wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 02, 2019 9:36 am

Is it possible to beam one voice across two staves? I've attached a sketch of the sort of thing I'm hoping to achieve.

Of course: Finale QuickTips: Cross-Staff Beaming
And a bit more in depth: Cross-staff notes

Or you can add smart shapes by selecting a region and execute a script, here's an example for slurs.

How can I link the horizontal dotted line so that it appears in all the parts? One solution: don't use a Smart Shape. Instead, create a new expression in the "Tempo" category which consists of a single hyphen: "-" (without quotes). Put together the dashed line by inserting this expression multiple ...

If you have a 32-bit Windows machine, and you start the Windows task manager (control-alt-delete-Start Task Manager), and you start any simple Finale playback, what percentage of all CPU time does your Finale use? Nearly none, as my sounds are produced by external synthesizers. Of course, if you ha...

You have several options of narrowing down the error to its source. E.G. reduce the score to only one staff/measure, copy individual measures/staves of the score to a new document or lead Finale's MIDI data through a MIDI monitor to see which data gets sent effectively.

How do you best adjust the alignment of this box? I used the pointer tool but it broke it apart line by line. The box ended up w/ some collisions and not how I'd like it positioned. The size of the box depends on the size of the measure and the entered values in the dialog. Thus, if Finale's layout...