Why Yellow Stems

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Post by GoGuard » Thu May 03, 2018 3:52 pm

I have Finale version 25 for Windows 10. As I am inputting music, from time to time I have been getting many notes with yellow stems, although they print out as black. I never did with version 2014. Any ideas what is causing this?
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Post by N Grossingink » Thu May 03, 2018 3:57 pm

See this discussion:
viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15184&hilit=Orange+Stems

My advice - ignore it. You can turn off "color unlinked items" in Preferences, Display Colors.

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Post by GoGuard » Fri May 04, 2018 2:55 pm

OK. So I read the old posts about orange stems. They looked yellow to me. Anyway, they still don't answer the problem. The file I'm working on is not an old file being updated. It is a brand new file in v. 25. The music is a harp part - no transposition. Finale needs to fix this bug!
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Post by zuill » Fri May 04, 2018 3:02 pm

Yellow stems can mean that there is a difference between the score and the part. An edit was made unlinking the 2. If you have a file we can examine, we might be able to give more insight. I wouldn't call this a bug until all has been explored.

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Post by michelp » Fri May 04, 2018 4:40 pm

MakeMusic confirmed there is a bug...

viewtopic.php?f=5&t=15184&hilit=Orange+ ... =50#p51305
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Post by motet » Fri May 04, 2018 5:10 pm

Copying and pasting back sometimes fixes it.

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