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I dare say there's someone doing some kind of notation that uses rests to represent different characters in a different font, and need to put some different symbol as an articulation on the top. Unless I was absent in theory class that day there is no situation where an accent mark is on a rest. Ju...

For those who might be reading this in the hopes of discovering how to do it, here it is. In Page View, select the Staff Tool, select the entire staff in question, then from the Staff Menu select Hide Empty Staves. They will be hidden only if empty, for the elected duration (in other words, you can ...

Hmm, I don't know any way to do this after the fact, but at the time that you make the edit, most edits that you make to the part will also show up in the score if you perform them while holding down the override key (command on Mac, probably control on PC). There are a couple of tools that don't se...

Oh, I would DEFINITELY support that feature request! This is completely normal notation; not even one of those strange or unusual things...

I have a string quartet with 35 pages and 2 systems per page. I formatted the 2nd page exactly as I would like the rest to look(pages 3 to35). Is there a way to copy the exact layout(staff spacing, all margins and system spacing) of page 2 and apply it to the the rest of the pages in as few steps a...

The only reason I can think for this happening is if you are copying between documents. I get this all the time when I am trying to "clean up" an old file by copying it into a new document. If I break it up into smaller copying jobs, then expressions duplicate EVERY time I copy over.

That does work. I saw that option but read rebar and was thinking rebeam not sure why. Thanks for your help, Chris W Just be careful, because Finale won't execute the rebar on empty measures. So you may end up with some parts shifted more or less than others. The way around this is to create REAL w...

BuonTempi wrote:You could reduce the Quantisation value to 8ths, and then Retranscribe. (But remember that Retranscribing removes articulations, lyrics, etc.)

That could work! Because he could keep the original file, and use it to copy the articulations/lyrics, etc., back again! Well spotted!

Make sure that you've "generated parts" in the "manage parts" part of the "documents menu". At least In 2012 if you don't do that the staff styles don't turn up. DON'T DO THAT unless you haven't TOUCHED your parts yet! You will lose all formatting in all parts, and if you have set up voiced parts (...

This is a very old bug, dating back to the first version of Finale that had linked parts, 2007. In the score, select the Staff Tool. Select All (command A on my Mac, probably control A on a PC). From the Staff Menu select "Use selected staff styles for parts and score". You will probably have to cre...

I just checked the new MakeMusic forum and saw the official reply about this issue: Regenerate Parts! Wow. That removes any and all formatting. I guess they won't know about the other less invasive workarounds to this bug. Link to the thread: https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/1...

Ladies and gentlemen, I see this mistake all the time. Use the Text tool for titles, composer, page number, copyright, and the like, that are attached to pages. It should really be called the Title Tool, not the Text Tool. For all instructions, rehearsal letters, tempos, indications of all sorts tha...

An easier and more complete solution is to wait until you have completed the score, then while in the Staff tool, Select All, and choose from the Staff menu "Use selected staff styles in score and parts." You may have to recreate multimeasure rests for the parts, which you can do in one shot. Please...

I read some of the posts in the "Wishlist" forum, and most of them had answers from Mike suggesting that they be submitted to tech support as a feature request. So is the Wishlist forum just for readers to blow off steam into the void, with their suggestions going nowhere? Why have it at all? I woul...

There is an even easier way than Buon Tempi's method. Create the text block on the part you want. While holding down the override key (on Mac it's the command key) right-click the text block and unselect Show. This will cause it to be hidden everywhere. Release the override key and right-click the t...