Finale Forum

michelp wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 06, 2020 2:07 pm

Speedy Entry : type L on the second group.

And before doing that, use the / key on the 5th note to break the beam.

This happens because Finale creates temporary files it needs in the system temp folder, and the system comes along and deletes them after a time. The solution is to create your own temp folder for Finale and point to it in Preferences/Folders. You'll have to clean this out yourself once in a while (...

Have you ever wished that you knew who was practicing the repertoire at home before the big performance? Did you need to make a last-minute edit, but know you will lose valuable time trying to make and send out new PDFs? Have you ever questioned if the ensemble that is about to perform your masterp...

Whether you can type a measure number in the playback controls depends on the Playback Region setting (Current counter setting will enable the control).

Hard to say without seeing your file. Can you post it here?

Change the starting measure number, not the measure range.

If you don't mind removing it everywhere, go into the group definition and edit the name. If you want to keep it elsewhere, you can split the group in two (you can give it a measure range).

I see what you mean now--bizarre! If I open your file in a later version, the problem persists. Probably the file is corrupt. If you're copying your boilerplate when you make a new piece, your probably perpetuating matters, so you might want to redo that file from scratch. I seem to recall long ago ...

I think you probably attached the wrong file. It's 23 pages of what looks like boilerplate. No blank pages.

"Staff name in score" is just a checkbox, but all's well that ends well.

I opened your file in Finale 2011 and don't see a blank page. There are no staff names assigned, but assigning them seems normal. Not sure what you mean by "Edit Staff Attributes > Staff Name in Score".

Can you apply the smart shapes before the staff style?

I the Document menu, there's "Pickup measure." Try that. It has a few problems, but they may not affect you. The other way is to add a measure stack. See below for how to set the time signature for that one bar.

Your picture above does not show independent time signatures for the Empty 1-line staff staff style. The black square in the box, as opposed to a check mark, indicates there's no change to that setting. Independent time signatures are used to have 12/8 in one staff and 4/4 in another, that sort of t...

As N. says, independent time signatures will cause this. Are you using them?

As I said back in August, the second clarinet has some extra junk 3 before [199]. In Speedy entry, move the cursor along until it stops where it's not over a note or rest and press Delete (or Mac equivalent). Keep doing this until you've removed them all. This extra junk is both before and after the...

Using ties for l.v. should work OK. I agree that the arpeggio-tie situation is tedious, and it doesn't seem to survive respacing. Using guides might help, though "snap to guides" doesn't seem to work for tie ends.

You forgot to attach your file.

Make sure the notes you want to tie are in the same layer. First try deleting the backward ties and recreating them. As a last resort, the tie tool will allow you to drag them backwards, but I would try to find out what's wrong first.

You can define a staff style that unchecks "staff name" and apply it to the measure where you want to remove it.

It would, but again, are you sure you need a lot of different rehearsal marks? I believe auto-sequence can be made to work for you (you can start at other than A, as I said), and it's a lot easier to apply them since you can define a single metatool.

You can start the rehearsal mark sequence at a different letter by right-clicking on the first you you place, so you don't need to create a bunch of single-letter marks.

I'm afraid not.

There is a way to reprogram the 6-9 keys if there's one you don't use. Look under Keyboard Shortcuts in the manual.

Utilities/Transpose. Select Chromatically.

There was a discussion here recently where the Alt entry method didn't work (I think it was O with a macro), which is why I didn't suggest that. But ä does seem to work.