Strange behaviour of staff name…

[Andreo Basisto]

strange text happening.mus

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If you open the attached file in page view and click on Edit Staff Attributes > Staff Name in Score, you will see that the text box on the blank page opposite has ‘taken over’ the staff name. All I’ve done is create the text box. Why is this happening and what can I do to stop it?

Many thanks!

Andreo Basisto

[motet]

I opened your file in Finale 2011 and don't see a blank page. There are no staff names assigned, but assigning them seems normal. Not sure what you mean by "Edit Staff Attributes > Staff Name in Score".

[Peter Thomsen]

Andreo Basisto,

If I understand you correctly, the text block has become “linked” to the Staff Name:
Change the Staff Name, and the contents in the text block changes too.

An idea:

Create yet another text block.
If that new text is not “linked” to the Staff Name, then use that text block instead, and delete the “linked” text block.

[Andreo Basisto]

Greetings Peter

Many thanks for your suggestion which worked the second time I tried it. Perhaps I didn’t delete items in the correct order at first? This is a ‘Finale Workaround’, I suppose and still doesn’t explain why it’s happening. It’s fairly recent behaviour – perhaps it first happened towards the end of last year.

I wonder if the cause is something to do with options under staff attributes? Today, I wanted to give a name to the 5th stave in a file and the name copied over to the second stave as well!

Motet – thank you for having a look at my file. I’m not sure why you couldn’t see the blank page. It’s page 1 of the file and page 2 is the empty staves. Finale does open the file at page 2 initially. By "Edit Staff Attributes > Staff Name in Score", I was saying that clicking Staff Name in Score brings up the word from the text block on page 1 as a name of the staff.

Andreo

[motet]

I think you probably attached the wrong file. It's 23 pages of what looks like boilerplate. No blank pages.

"Staff name in score" is just a checkbox, but all's well that ends well.

[Andreo Basisto]

Greetings Motet!

Apologies! It seems you are quite right and I had posted the wrong file. I guess I hadn't saved the changes made, before posting.

The file that should have appeared (without Peter's correction) is attached.

And I'm pleased to report that I've used Peter's workaround to cure the previously mentioned behavour with the staff name repeating itself from staff 5 to staff 2. I created an extra staff, named it, deleted staff 5 and then deleted the name from staff 2. Lots of extra unnecessary work, though...

Andreo

[motet]

I see what you mean now--bizarre! If I open your file in a later version, the problem persists.

Probably the file is corrupt. If you're copying your boilerplate when you make a new piece, your probably perpetuating matters, so you might want to redo that file from scratch.

I seem to recall long ago Zuill finding an example of a file which retained old text even after the text was deleted, eventually leading to odd behavior. Perhaps he will remember. Just a wild guess, but if your file has a long legacy, maybe that's what's going on.

[Andreo Basisto]

Thanks, Motet

Yes, I'll do as you suggest and will create a new file to replace my working, every-day 'boilerplate'.

Andreo Basisto