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by mark carlson
Wed May 24, 2017 7:24 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Everything disappears when dragging staves to respace
Replies: 4
Views: 2584

Everything disappears when dragging staves to respace

In some scores, when I drag staves to move them closer or farther apart, I can still see the notes and everything while I am doing it. In other scores, the notes and everything completely disappear while I am dragging and then redraw when I am finished. This is particularly irritating, since without...
by mark carlson
Tue May 02, 2017 6:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Collisions of accidentals with notes in other layers
Replies: 6
Views: 4478

Re: Collisions of accidentals with notes in other layers

Thank you, all. I will play around with your suggestions. One thing that is puzzling/bothering me is that I have never had this problem before--at least not in my modern history--and I have been copying music on Finale since 1989. Does anyone have an idea what makes this different? Also, I just deci...
by mark carlson
Tue May 02, 2017 1:46 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Collisions of accidentals with notes in other layers
Replies: 6
Views: 4478

Collisions of accidentals with notes in other layers

I'm having trouble that I don't remember having for many years: Accidentals in one layer are colliding with notes in another; notes in one layer are colliding with dots (as in adding value dots) in another. I've checked my settings in Document Options, and they look correct to me, but I must be doin...
by mark carlson
Tue Feb 14, 2017 2:13 am
Forum: Share Your Music
Topic: Regarding notes in layer 2 moving
Replies: 7
Views: 17725

Regarding notes in layer 2 moving

I am editing a score originally copied in 1998, but now on Finale 2014a. I painstakingly adjusted many, many notes in adjacent layers which, somehow, had moved: things that are a second apart had shifted so that they were far apart, instead of being right next to each other. I can't tell you how lon...