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cornopean
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Post by cornopean » Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:38 pm

I was planning to use a previous piece as the starting point for a similar one so I loaded it and saved it as a new file name.

The old piece had a pick up bar of 1 beat but was otherwise in triple time. How easy, I thought to delete the pick up bar and change the time to 4/4. It would not delete. I tried a few things so I may have messed with the file I'll upload with this message, but I can only select the portion you see and wondered what has gone wrong. Stacks within the music will delete.

I will stop being lazy and start a fresh file, but this has me stumped so I thought I'd ask!

I have rebooted. Even Select All will not select the first portion of what was bar #1.
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Post by N Grossingink » Fri Apr 19, 2019 2:53 pm

Go to the Document Menu > Pickup Measure. Click the "Clear Pickup" button. You can now delete the measure if you wish.

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cornopean
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Finale Version: 2011 PC
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Post by cornopean » Fri Apr 19, 2019 4:10 pm

Wow - who knew? You did, obviously.

Another gem of knowledge in my store cupboard; thank you!
Finale 2011b.r2 and Windows 10

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