Finale Forum

Regarding my template I made...

I have system locks turned off. But when I start to enter notes, I get strange spacing (as you can see in the screenshot, this is after I've deleted the notes).

I always have to Select all, CTRL+M, and "remove system locks" even though the systems aren't locked! This fixes the spacing. It's just annoying to have to do this. Seems unnecessary.

Here's a link to the Finale file: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/175 ... issue.musx. Can anyone show me what I have set incorrectly?

Thanks,
Dan

It's hard to say, depending on the way you have your Finale preferences set up. Make sure that under Preferences > Edit you have "Reflow Measures" set to "Across Systems (Maintain System Locks)". Does that fix it?

N.

N Grossingink wrote:It's hard to say, depending on the way you have your Finale preferences set up. Make sure that under Preferences > Edit you have "Reflow Measures" set to "Across Systems (Maintain System Locks)". Does that fix it?

N.

I looked at that; the box is checked already.

I opened your file and entered notes but I wasn't able to duplicate your spacing issues. Strange. I'm on my laptop, so when I get a chance I'll try it on my desktop and see if I get the same problem you do.

Looks like Update Layout (Ctrl-U) needs to be done.

Zuill

Serenity Musician wrote:I opened your file and entered notes but I wasn't able to duplicate your spacing issues. Strange. I'm on my laptop, so when I get a chance I'll try it on my desktop and see if I get the same problem you do.

Sounds like the problem is with my global Finale preferences, then.

But you can always invoke update layout with CTRL-U, as Zuill pointed out.