Finale Forum

I unchecked the rebar boxes, works perfectly. Thank again.

I'll get back to you, Ludwig. Thank you very much.

Thank you. That works to some extent, but I'm left with some empty bars, some misaligned music and some misplaced expressions. I've done it several times with the same results. I do not have the very latest version. I'm 26.3 or so. I may have to re-notate it bar by bar.

Let's say I've written something in 3/4, but now I've decided it should be in 3/8. The score has been completed in 3/4. Is there a way to change the whole piece to 3/8 at the same time cutting all durations in half (i.e. quarter note becomes eighth note). I'm looking for a global edit for this. Any ...

I knew it was easy. I forgot that on my laptop I have to reduce the size enough to drag through ALL the handles. Many thanks.

How do I change the distance between the staves equally in one step? When I changed the size of my page from tabloid to letter music spills below the bottom of each page. I want only to nudge the staves a little closer to each other. I've attached the first and second pages. I individually moved eac...

I did that as well. Sorry for the false alarm.

Thanks. For some reason I thought I was up to date. Downloading 25.5 now.

When I open an existing file, my tool palettes are incomplete. See attached. Anyone else have this problem?

I zoomed out and zoomed back in. Problem solved. Strange behaviour!

No I am using a custom zoom of 89%. Never used to be a problem.

We can.

Also, Finale places my selections one beat off. In other words, I want to select a note and change it's pitch. My selection arrow is in the correct place, but when I click, one beat to the left is selected and not the note I want. So now I have to use my right arrow after every selection to get to t...

I DO! Thank you!

I have a part which has certain layout specifics which I would like apply to other parts. Is there a way to do this without having to copy every stave's page and system margin settings individually from one part to another?

I have three text blocks to name the three parts of my piece. When I extract parts, only the first one shows up. How do I attach the other two in such a way that they will extract? I've had this problem before with harp pedaling. I just got used to manually entering the information in each part as n...

That explains it. But here's the thing: I reduced my file to about 6 measures (out of 300 or so) , i.e. showing the beginning and end of each section, and the file size became 380kb, about 1/2 the size of the whole piece. I can't get it under 100kb!

I figured out what I was doing wrong. Thanks very much.

On a side issue, there's the screenshot discrepancy.

but also using Apple's compress command does not change the size of the .mus file for some reason. I can't figure out why. i.e. the archived file is that same size as the original. Weird.

"Instead, use staff style #13 which is the staff style “Hide Staff (and Collapse)”."

Still no result. The staff does not disappear.

Why does my dialogue box read differently then yours? I'm using 2014d as well.

…The result is that in parts 1 & 3 there are wide separations between the percussion "area" and the strings. It's just a question of neatness for me. If I understand you correctly, you are talking about the score, not about the linked parts, right? Yes, only about the score. From your description i...

1) It is only in the middle section (with 4 staves) that you can respace staves.
In a part with only 1 staff, staff respacing does not make sense.

The result is that in parts 1 & 3 there are wide separations between the percussion "area" and the strings. It's just a question of neatness for me.

Now that I have done what you suggest, is there a way to re-space the staves of parts I, II, and III independently of each other?

Perfectly clear. Thank you.

I have a three part continuous piece in which the middle section has different percussion. i.e. parts 1 and 3 have one percussion line and part 2 has four. I would like to make one file with all three parts. How do I get Finale to do this and to extract the percussion part correctly?

Yes. I do know that. In this case it was irrelevant. BTW, the distorted text in the dialogue box is how Finale 2010 reacts to Yosemite. Perhaps Finale 2014 does not have this problem.