Finale Forum

When you have selected the whole piece use the dialog box of the key signatures (you get it when you double click into the selected system). Then you have 4 options (at least in Finale 2009). The one on the bottom of the box is the one for you, I suppose.

Peter

Have you updated the layout?

It seems to me that these notes belong to the measure before an that this measure is filled with too many notes...

Peter

measure tool, measure attributes. there you can hide time signature and key signature

Peter

Did you use an old document to adjust it in the way PeterT suggested? Then maybe you have to go to page view and update the layout, there might be too many measures per line...

I hope it is clear what I mean...

Peter

I would suggest that you use "automatic spacing" during the entry of new music.

or create expressions like "solo" and "tutti"

change the page size in your default file...

a) add a new staff to your document, do the swap and delete the staff...
b) use a new document, copy some measures to it

You can also use Ctrl+C to copy the [Alt+0160] and use Ctrl+V to insert it. That's what I did many times...

Peter

You can set the F-keys as shortcuts for the tools.
Hold Shift+FX and click on the tool's button. This works for the document. Use the default document to set the tools, safe the default document and use ist for new documents in the future...

peter

By choosing Baltic script you can get some of the polish letters, but not all of them, it seems. Maybe you will find the polish letters in the "central european" script of Times New Roman. You can select them by using "insert symbol" or by Alt+xxxx (I do not know polish, but I found the letters you...

why don't you use speedy entry? tuplets are easy with it...

Just press ctrl+5 before you enter 5 16th. and if you use a MIDI-Keyboard you can even fix the sixteenth notes...

peter

a) there is a possibility to check "do not show courtesy time signature" in the measure attributes of the last measure in the first system.
b) go to the document options/bar lines, there you can uncheck "final bar line at the end of the piece"

Peter

The point is not to have to delete the chord so it can serve as a temporary reference. If you look at the vid I posted of Sibelius to see what I wanted to achieve and with the same ease. You can also insert the two eight notes and the eight rest BEFORE you delete the two notes out of the chord... P...

Peter Thomsen wrote: There is also a shortcut to, temporarily use Insert Mode:
Hold down the Shift key.
You will be in Insert Mode until you release the Shift key.
This is convenient when you only need to insert a single note.

OK, but this seems to work only on a Mac, not on windows

Also, with speedy entry, I need to buy a pair of magnifying glasses to see it! even when I have zoomed in on the bar, once i go to speedy, its very small again. Any way to fix that?? I work on a Windows Version of Finale (and in German). I can set the height of the rectangle in the speedy entry opt...

OK, fine.
Maybe you are on a Mac? I am on Windows...

Peter

Which version do you use? I tried it out with 2012...

When you enter a new name for the staff, do not forget to uncheck "automatic numbering" in the dialog box... (I hope my translation is correct, I have a German version)

Peter

For #2: you can set shortcuts for the different tools in finale itself. an least on windows... hold the shift key and one of the F keys (F2 - F12), then click on the tool you want. this works for the file you are working on, but you can save your preferences in your default file. Then you have the s...

I think you will not get the metatools when you use the assistant. But you can use your template, add staves etc. and save the file as another template.

Peter

Menu speedy entry, third line: Playback.

Hope this works for you, I am working on windows.

Peter

This is not really a "contemporary music" thing, you can find these "one-bar-MMR" in many old editions. I do not really need them, but maybe some musicians find them easier to read. So why should Brian not write these MMRs when he wants to?

Peter

lora, you can alter the size of the system with the % tool. and you should update layout to maybe get more bars in a system automatically.

and please have a look at the manual...

peter

There is also a plug-in for "simple entry of measure numbers..." (I hope the translation is correct, I have a German version of fin2009), using it you do not need a calculator anymore