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by Bill Stevens
Thu Mar 07, 2024 3:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Off Topic -- Ads?
Replies: 13
Views: 537

Re: Off Topic -- Ads?

I was hoping this would help, but it doesn't look like it did.

Safari > Settings > Websites > In left column, Pop-Up Windows > finaleforum.com > block

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by Bill Stevens
Thu Mar 07, 2024 2:11 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: hide staff in section of piano part
Replies: 1
Views: 104

Re: hide staff in section of piano part

If you ctl-click the piano group and edit group attributes, there is a pop-down for hiding empty staves. It probably says Only Hide if All Staves are Empty. Change that and see if it does what you want.

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by Bill Stevens
Thu Mar 07, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Off Topic -- Ads?
Replies: 13
Views: 537

Off Topic -- Ads?

Recently every time I go to this page (the Finale forum page) I get a pop-up ad, usually for Legos, which I have to close. It's just one click but it's annoying. I am many decades past the Lego age and for me they are mostly a threat to bare feet.

Is anyone else seeing this?

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by Bill Stevens
Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:58 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Niente decrescendo hairpin
Replies: 5
Views: 208

Re: Niente decrescendo hairpin

You can make a shape expression, and be sure to make it horizontally stretchable.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Corrupted file?
Replies: 19
Views: 502

Re: Corrupted file?

Motet,

Possibly I was able to delete the staff after moving it to the top because both Felipe and I are on Mac. I will be curious to hear if it works for him.

Thanks for reminding me of the XML trick.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Corrupted file?
Replies: 19
Views: 502

Re: Corrupted file?

I did Staff > Reorder Staves and moved the mystery staff to the top, and was able to delete it.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:09 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Corrupted file?
Replies: 19
Views: 502

Re: Corrupted file?

This is a long shot, but maybe try Document > Data Check > File Maintenance and see if that reduces the file size enough to send.

Bill
by Bill Stevens
Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:01 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Corrupted file?
Replies: 19
Views: 502

Re: Corrupted file?

Nothing there. We would need to be able to see the staves to figure out the problem. Try again?

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Corrupted file?
Replies: 19
Views: 502

Re: Corrupted file?

If you clear everything from the score (ON A COPY) is it still to large to post here?

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by Bill Stevens
Sun Feb 18, 2024 9:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Switch horizontal alignment of chord notes
Replies: 13
Views: 493

Re: Switch horizontal alignment of chord notes

You said you put in voice 2 first in one of your posts. Are you using voices rather than layers? If so, you might try layers. But I tried voices and it turned out fine.

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by Bill Stevens
Sun Feb 18, 2024 11:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Switch horizontal alignment of chord notes
Replies: 13
Views: 493

Re: Switch horizontal alignment of chord notes

I assume you want the dotted quarter to the right of the whole note. For me that's what happens when I enter the notes. I'm using 27.4 on a Mac.

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by Bill Stevens
Thu Feb 15, 2024 2:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Vocal ranges
Replies: 9
Views: 399

Re: Vocal ranges

Are you wanting to check the ranges, as heinzfan suggested, or do want to create the little incipit that shows the highest and lowest note of a voice part?

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by Bill Stevens
Wed Feb 14, 2024 8:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: score merge
Replies: 9
Views: 450

Re: score merge

Like you, I have had mixed results with score merge. It works much better to generate PDF's and merge those.

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by Bill Stevens
Tue Feb 13, 2024 7:31 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: simple but baffled
Replies: 17
Views: 653

Re: simple but baffled

Text Tool > Double click where you want the number > then Text > Insert > Page Numbers

Then Text > Frame Attributes > drop-down menu to Left Pages

Rinse and Repeat for right pages.

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by Bill Stevens
Mon Feb 12, 2024 8:19 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: masking
Replies: 10
Views: 384

Re: masking

It works for me with an expression, exporting to PDF both through the print dialog and using the Graphics Tool. What steps are you taking?

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by Bill Stevens
Mon Feb 12, 2024 2:32 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Delete pick-up
Replies: 4
Views: 254

Re: Delete pick-up

Jose

There are a couple of ways to create a pickup measure. If you used Document > Pickup Measure then use the Selection Tool and select the pickup measure, then Document > Pickup Measure > Clear Pickup > OK.

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by Bill Stevens
Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Frustrated with changing lyrics size, font, etc. HELP
Replies: 12
Views: 4444

Re: Frustrated with changing lyrics size, font, etc. HELP

Late to the game here, but another option is JW Change > Syllables > Font Size.

Syllables seems an odd spot to find that, but there you are.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Feb 09, 2024 10:38 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Orange chords?
Replies: 7
Views: 391

Re: Orange chords?

I did a test and Michelp is correct, though in my case when the chord in the score is unlinked from the part it turns green rather than orange. I see in the Preferences pane there is a way to change the color of unlinked items so Mike's source must have done that.

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by Bill Stevens
Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Inserting flat symbol into Score Manager/"Score Name" Insert with Raleway font
Replies: 32
Views: 1193

Re: Inserting flat symbol into Score Manager/"Score Name" Insert with Raleway font

ebiggs,

When you put information into the File Info, then it adds that info to the score and all parts. So I assume the OP wants to add a flat in the File Info so he doesn't have to edit the title on every part.

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by Bill Stevens
Wed Feb 07, 2024 6:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Inserting flat symbol into Score Manager/"Score Name" Insert with Raleway font
Replies: 32
Views: 1193

Re: Inserting flat symbol into Score Manager/"Score Name" Insert with Raleway font

No, he is referring to Score Manager > File Info.

Once it appears in the score it can be edited, but not in the File Info box.

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by Bill Stevens
Mon Feb 05, 2024 11:36 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: reverb
Replies: 9
Views: 512

Re: reverb

Odd. It worked for me when I opened your file. Maybe someone else can help.

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by Bill Stevens
Mon Feb 05, 2024 9:48 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: reverb
Replies: 9
Views: 512

Re: reverb

In the Mixer turn up the reverb level.

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by Bill Stevens
Sat Feb 03, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: extract parts windows
Replies: 2
Views: 271

Re: extract parts windows

It looks like the one on the right is before you generated parts and the one on the left is after.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:13 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: extract parts
Replies: 16
Views: 819

Re: extract parts

To add to Peter's explanation, once you have created linked parts you can use opt-cmd-period to quickly cycle through the parts.

opt-cmd-comma cycles backwards and opt-cmd-backslash jumps from the current part to the full score.

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by Bill Stevens
Fri Feb 02, 2024 1:18 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: extract parts
Replies: 16
Views: 819

Re: extract parts

On your piece

Go > Document > Manage Parts > Generate Parts

Now if you do Document > Edit Parts you will see all the linked parts.

The parts may require some tinkering, but they are there.

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