Finale Forum

I don't understand your question, but to see what's in what layer, you need to turn on score colors in Preferences. Then layer 1 will be black and layer 2 red. Everything will print black.

Right, print to PDF doesn't fix the default, but indeed it saves you from wasting paper. I'd be surprised if there were a setting to change that default. I use CutePDF on Windows (I believe there's a Mac version). When I print to CutePDF, it opens the program and puts your music in it. All you need ...

I assume you mean here: 0668.png Since that's the only note in layer 1 (the other layer-1 notes are really in the upper staff), you don't need two layers. Move layer 2 to layer 1, OK'ing overwriting that single note. 0667.png Then use Utilities/Stem Direction on that measure to force the stems down....

This seems to be yet another ill-considered new "feature" (Finale 2014.4 versus Finale 27 defaults show below). It seems to pick Score even if you're editing a part. The old way of defaulting to nothing was I think preferable if not very useful (if I were designing it I would have it pick whatever p...

Something caused it to revert to ASIO.

Unless they've fixed it, changes you make to the audio settings won't stick if your system doesn't have a microphone, or if it's disabled. No, that doesn't make any sense.

Not a bug.

There is an Edit palette you can enable on the Window menu that has an Undo button. You can drag the palette where you want it. Most people just type Ctrl+Z, though, so I don't find the palette useful. You can also access Undo and Redo from the Edit menu.

Select any existing text first.

It's one of the "custom" SmartShapes. Ctrl+click on the pencil icon at the bottom of the the SmartShape palette and pick the one that looks like this 0662.png The draw one of these horizontally in your document. Right-click its handle and uncheck Make Horizontal. 0664.png Now double-click on the han...

I'm guessing you don't mean "reverse" its stem, which using Finale jargon would appear as I've shown below, but rather "flip" the stem. Select the measure in layer 2 and use Utilities/Stem direction. (There's no need for layer 2 since there's nothing in layer 1. This seems to be confusing Simple ent...

Try the Resize tool rather than the Page Layout tool.

I do this to move one measure (left and right). It doesn't seem to require a key delay. +PgUp::Send !u{Down}{Enter} +PgDn::Send !u{Up}{Enter} As I said, if Alt+U doesn't work reliably, you can likely replace it with a mouse move, unless you're in the habit of resizing your Finale window often. There...

In my case Finale 2014.5 is fine and Finale 27 is not on Windows 10, which would suggest it's not a Windows problem, but you never know. What's curious is that sometimes that U in Measure is underlined and sometimes it's not. And pressing the Alt key by itself is supposed to toggle the underlines in...

When that happens, you might try pressing and releasing all those keys, which might save you having to relaunch. I've only used Finale 27 to help people here, my workhorse version being 2014.5, but I've gotten virtually stuck keys a number of times in Finale 27, and almost never in 2014.5 (Windows 1...

A "virtual stick key"? Sometimes Finale thinks a key is pressed when it isn't, especially Shift, Alt, or Ctrl.

Any self-respecting trumpeter will be able to play down to F# easily, but it's true that register lacks power and won't necessarily sound good in ensemble writing.

Either change Finale from using ASIO or get an ASIO driver like FlexASIO.

Can you attach a file exhibiting the problem here?

I see now that there's a shape in the default Finale libraries that you can use to create an expression to do what you want in a single measure. Create this expression, use a staff style to get rid of the whole rest, then apply the expression, which can be stretched as you like. 10" is a separate ex...

Manual hairpin adjustment should be minimal if the hairpins were attached to beats properly, but it sounds like it's too late for that. I don't use the "voice" feature to separate parts, but I understand it has its limitation. You might experiment with JW Staff Polyphony to see how it does at teasin...

You can edit a multimeasure rest by right clicking on it, and get rid of the number by putting a larger number in the "Start numbering at" field. Then you can add your "ten seconds" as a expression. By default, multimeasure rest creation begins at two measures. You can change that to 1 in Document O...

Finale's Autosave and what's being requested here are not the same, of course. In the absence of saving every keystroke, as you describle, I find Autosave very useful in case Finale crashes. I have it save every 10 minutes, so if Finale crashes (seldom) I lose at most 10 minutes work (but an average...

When I spend several months doing a piece I save the .musx files in Finale literally hundreds of times (I don't ever leave it running overnight). I don't know about Time Machine, but Dropbox will automatically save some number of versions back but not hundreds. I copy the .musx file to Dropbox once ...

No need to hold down shift when double-clicking, either.

Single measures are special. To change only a single measure, you need to select the first Measure Region item in the Time Signature dialog.

What determines if your imported XML file gets MIDI or VST, Garritan or SmartSynth?