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by Tomtim
Sat Jan 02, 2010 7:27 pm
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: A true hard LOCK function for staff systems.
Replies: 4
Views: 7125

Tomtim, you can attach text blocks also to measures... Peter Amazing what I can still learn about a program I've been using off and on for 15 years. Thanks again for the tip: attaching text blocks to measures looks like just what I need, and the dozens of attachment changes are going quickly. ~ Tom...
by Tomtim
Sat Jan 02, 2010 5:37 am
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: A true hard LOCK function for staff systems.
Replies: 4
Views: 7125

Re: A true hard LOCK function for staff systems

Tomtim, ... insert a Page Break ... : Page Layout Tool ... Thank you for the tips, Peter! I should have asked long ago. Now when I give every page a break, the only mess following a system insert is on pages that have text via the Text Tool. Those with text attached to systems via the Expression To...
by Tomtim
Sat Jan 02, 2010 12:11 am
Forum: Wishlist
Topic: A true hard LOCK function for staff systems.
Replies: 4
Views: 7125

A true hard LOCK function for staff systems.

I write mixed staff and text scores for many hours very Christmas season for a big musical theater group. The pages look kinda like a music textbook, very effective. But even with staff systems "locked" on page 6, they get bumped to crazy if I insert a staff system on page 1. I have burned up countl...
by Tomtim
Tue Dec 30, 2008 2:11 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Chord symbols can't be adjusted?
Replies: 2
Views: 2979

Chord adjustment solved - Thanks!

Thank you Michel. It's been more than a year since I entered chords on a score, and maybe prior to that I had used Manual input without realizing that the adjustment tool is associated. Anyway, I'm up and running with an appreciative nod to you.
~ Tim
by Tomtim
Mon Dec 29, 2008 5:07 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Chord symbols can't be adjusted?
Replies: 2
Views: 2979

Chord symbols can't be adjusted?

Is this a new feature in Finale 2009b, locking symbols (like Amin7) against individual adjustment, such that you can only move them vertically and then only as a whole line, not one-by-one, and not at all horizontally? 1/2 hour of reading the manual revealed nothing to me about this. I must not have...