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Where are you saving your changes to?

This might be best handled with Windows rather than Finale. Uncheck everything in Finale's Preferences/Screen Colors so that it's simple black with a white background, then check out the Ease of Access settings in Windows. Also try Googling

windows reverse screen colors

(As you can see I added a second treble clef as well.)

To create the layout in your attached graphic I selected the first 3 beats, and applied the staff style Slash Notation. I suspect this is the step babryanaton is not doing. It is slightly hinky. If you apply the staff style first and then run the cue notes plug-in, you get the quarter-note rest in ...

I recently did this exact thing with secco recitative (two characters sharing one staff), and did as Peter suggests and added a second bass clef to the repertoire of clefs. I strongly suggest this approach rather than using a "false clef," since with a real clef change Finale will automatically make...

Maybe you need Windows help. Not a Finale problem.

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The notes in the two hands must line up vertically, so where there are sixteenth notes in the right hand, the left-hand notes will be further apart. Nothing wrong with that, and what you have is normal and looks fine. The last system is a bit crowded, though, since you've got six measures where the ...

I didn’t know that—thanks

Thanks, Mike. I think I figured out what's going on. If you enter the first note with QWERTY, as you did, you get this after pressing Alt+9: 0693.png But if you create the first note with the mouse, you get this: 0694.png With the "caret" between the quarter note and the rest in the first case, it w...

There you go!

I did get it to work. After entering the quarter note and setting up the tuplet, it looks like this (already we're off to a bad start): 0690.png If you move the right arrow to select the first half rest and try to enter a quarter note with QWERTY, it will enter a half note instead, even though quart...

That's not it in this case. It was unchecked (QWERTY entry).

You want a triplet of three half notes in the space of two half notes. I was able to do it easily in Speedy entry by using Ctrl+1 to set up 3 halves in the space of 2, then entering the notes and rests (measure 1 below). Simple entry gave me trouble, as you can see (m. 3). Mike Rosen?

A plug-in would be great. Meanwhile, try this: make the pattern in measure 1 below in some scratch measure--you can delete it later. Then set the copy filter as show. As you can see it will almost convert your rhythm in measure 2 to your desired result. The place is fails is where there are four 32n...

Sounds like you might have Automatic Music Spacing or Automatic Update Layout turned off. They should be on at the stage of entering music. At the very end of your process you might want to turn off Automatic Music Spacing if you're doing fine adjustment. Always leave Automatic Update Layout on.

Perhaps you could post a screen shot. But it looks like the font, GnvilFIN, is from Elbsound. I would ask Herr Angermüller himself.

It looks like restarting Finale clears SmartFind and Paint, which you probably discovered since you haven't been back here. Restarting Finale is always the first thing you should try if there's a problem. If that doesn't work, reboot the computer.

You've accidentally invoked "SmartFind and Paint." On the Edit menu, pick SmarFind and Paint/Deselect.

Select the text block in the Text tool, then Text/Standard Frame, uncheck "Show Border."

I'm not sure which border you're referring to, but to change from the title to the part name, go to the text tool, right-click on the title, and pick Edit Text. Select all, delete it, then use the Text menu, Inserts, Score/Part name.

If some parts have repeats and others have them written out, it can be confusing in rehearsals, which I think overrides any advantages you might see having repeats in the piano part. There might even be a disadvantage to repeats if you have to turn the page back.

Do you mean you leave Finale running with the file open for a long time? If so, that's because Windows comes along and cleans out its temp directory, some of which Finale needs. The solution is to create your own Finale temp directory (in Documents, say), and point Preferences/Folders to it. You'll ...

Maybe you should go back to Finale 2012.

I don't think the grid does anything except let you tediously align things manually. I don't really understand the need for aligning things to a grid. Finale has other ways of aligning text expressions, fingerings, etc., even measure widths. And unless you have a system of one-measure examples, for ...