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by Anders Hedelin
Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:02 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt
Replies: 34
Views: 4901

Re: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt

The "simple approach" I referred to in my last post was to remember when you'd made changes or not. There was a time when you had to make hand-written notes of things like that, in all kinds of situations. Now that's ONE thing Finale won't do for you. Is that so terrible?
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Sep 02, 2022 4:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt
Replies: 34
Views: 4901

Re: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt

Ughh. This has been a longstanding issue for many many years. It's insane. I've complained about it to MM. Others have complained about it to MM. No solution has ever been devised. The issue is that if every time one opens and closes a file, doing nothing in the process but opening and closing it, ...
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Aug 29, 2022 6:00 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt
Replies: 34
Views: 4901

Re: How to prevent "Save Changes" prompt

I don't know how helpful this may be, but when I need to see the date when a file was last changed - as in a list of files I'm working on - I take care to remember if I did changes or not every time when I've opened one. Possibly this is self-evident, but given Finale's idiosyncrasy, this is a way t...
by Anders Hedelin
Sat Jul 30, 2022 8:33 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: rest
Replies: 4
Views: 866

Re: rest

Wouldn't it be more consequent to hide all the rests, not just some of them?
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:39 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Two issues: sFp, and adding an extra "dot" to a note
Replies: 6
Views: 1015

Re: Two issues: sFp, and adding an extra "dot" to a note

If you need the sfp thing for playback, this might create something like what you describe: sfp cresc.musx If there are many of these, you could possibly copy some of them with a filter. And, if you don't want it to look like this in the score, you might consider making a separate playback version o...
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jul 07, 2022 5:34 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale contest
Replies: 14
Views: 1735

Re: Finale contest

There's a kindergarten saying: "Everyone won!"
Well, not quite right in this case.
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jun 30, 2022 8:08 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Horn in C
Replies: 15
Views: 2654

Re: Horn in C

(Puccini's horn parts, as far as I know, are always in F throughout.) Well, not always: https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/0/0e/IMSLP685383-PMLP53321-Puccini-Manon_-_11_Horn_1.pdf What's the point in keeping old transpositions in editions meant for performance? Intonation? - well hardly. Nost...
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jun 30, 2022 7:06 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Can Finale 26.3 notate triplets?
Replies: 12
Views: 1874

Re: Can Finale 26.3 notate triplets?

To answer the question in the title of this thread: Yes, it can. If you just bother to learn how to.
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:55 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Horn in C
Replies: 15
Views: 2654

Re: Horn in C

motet wrote:
Thu Jun 30, 2022 12:19 am
... if you're making a performing edition, do everyone a favor and put the Horn parts entirely in F.
That's such an obvious advice that I wonder why not.
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jun 30, 2022 5:40 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Finale 26.3 for Windows unable to slur two consecutive notes in voice 2
Replies: 7
Views: 1113

Re: Finale 26.3 for Windows unable to slur two consecutive notes in voice 2

A tip: try clicking below the notes, in the area of layer 2.
by Anders Hedelin
Tue Jun 21, 2022 4:15 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Automatic Update Layout issue
Replies: 11
Views: 1844

Re: Automatic Update Layout issue

I often turn off automatic update to great effect. I'm a tweaker. I write something, I perform it, then I often change some things. Let's say I made some manual adjustments to a few notes in a measure, but now I want to change one note in that measure. I like to use speedy entry, but if I have Auto...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:00 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: tuplet shortcut
Replies: 7
Views: 1193

Re: tuplet shortcut

If you are using a special tuplet frequently you might assign a metatool for it: http://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fina ... 20metatool
...and scroll down to the 'tuplet metatools'.
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Jun 10, 2022 5:37 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: understanding spacing?
Replies: 7
Views: 1096

Re: understanding spacing?

I seem to remember there was some outrage when MM moved the AMS preference from being a document setting to an application one. (Or was that something else?) If you need to change the AMS status depending on the phase of the document's creation, then it makes no sense to be an application pref. At ...
by Anders Hedelin
Thu Jun 09, 2022 8:45 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

motet wrote:
Wed Jun 08, 2022 10:12 pm
Not likely to be an issue here.
How can you be so sure? We haven't seen the rest of the composition.

Edit: Ok, it's unlikely because strablonsky told us he has 'display actual measure numbers' checked. If he hadn't, well that would be as likely an issue as anything else.
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Jun 08, 2022 3:17 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

Just a thought: Since dynamic hairpins are always beat attached (you can't choose them to be note attached, as opposed to slurs fx), they are dependent on the structure of the measure, with so and so many beats. Maybe someone else with more understanding of programming could clarify the connection b...
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:57 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

Ok, I'm not that surprised. There are more 'conditions' then.
by Anders Hedelin
Wed Jun 08, 2022 2:45 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

So I would love to know under which conditions this issue arises, because I have also experienced it. I've already pointed out one condition: the use of independent time signatures on different staves. The other one I know of is with overfilled measures as when you have applied Patterson's 'beam ov...
by Anders Hedelin
Tue Jun 07, 2022 6:39 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

Just one more thought: Finale can behave quite irrationally and unpredictably if you haven't selected 'Display Actual Measure Numbers' in the Preferences (View). I suspect that Finale's measure-centered way of working is hidden deep down in the code.
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Jun 06, 2022 10:29 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

In your short YouTube clip there's a glimpse of a lower staff with what looks like independent barlines. Now, that isn't really possible with Finale so you must have used a workaround. How did you do that? Even if that should be the culprit I'm not sure there's a simple solution. Finale can be quite...
by Anders Hedelin
Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:25 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves
Replies: 23
Views: 2620

Re: Smart Shapes keep moving around by themselves

I've encountered this in measures with independent time signatures on different staves. Unforunately I have no solution for this other than extreme patience. Maybe someone else has a better idea?
by Anders Hedelin
Sun Jun 05, 2022 12:09 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Note Spacing problems in Finale26
Replies: 4
Views: 816

Re: Note Spacing problems in Finale26

I don't think this has changed over the versions, at least not the ones that I can remember. It sounds like you have Automatic Music Spacing turned off, which generally is a good idea, since having it on could play ugly tricks with you after you have spent time with the layout. (You find it under Pr...
by Anders Hedelin
Fri Jun 03, 2022 7:35 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: One could lose one's sanity in the Lyrics Tool
Replies: 4
Views: 699

Re: One could lose one's sanity in the Lyrics Tool

It looks like the extension handles have (been) moved to the top system on the page.
by Anders Hedelin
Sun May 29, 2022 12:50 am
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?
Replies: 10
Views: 1806

Re: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?

Could you explain how to get access to that 'accessibility thing'? (On Windows for my part.)
by Anders Hedelin
Sat May 28, 2022 1:42 pm
Forum: General Finale Help
Topic: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?
Replies: 10
Views: 1806

Re: Vertical Spacing of all verses of a lyric at the same time?

I've had just the same problem, and can confirm that it's time-consuming and nerve-racking. Because you can't move the whole set of verses as a unity, and because you can't nudge the arrows of the lyric lines with the arrows of the keyboard - you have to drag them with the mouse with annoyingly unce...