Clef won't change

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birchwoodmusic
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Post by birchwoodmusic » Thu Apr 16, 2020 7:48 pm

I made a little treble clef example page for some of my young students from an old single line violin part that I had lying around (could be a Finale Allegro 1998 file!). When I tried to change the treble clef to the bass clef to make a comparable bass clef example page, Finale refused to change the clef. I'm stumped.
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Post by Bill Stevens » Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:08 pm

There is something hinky with that file, but if I created a new file and pasted your example in, it works as it should.

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motet
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Post by motet » Thu Apr 16, 2020 8:19 pm

You've got Transposition set to "Other", for some reason, with Set to clef = Treble, which is why you can't change the clef. Change Transposition to "None" and you're good to go.

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Post by birchwoodmusic » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:37 pm

Where is the dialog box where you can change the "Transposition" and "set" the clef?

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Post by N Grossingink » Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:43 pm

birchwoodmusic wrote:
Thu Apr 16, 2020 9:37 pm
Where is the dialog box where you can change the "Transposition" and "set" the clef?
It's in the manual:
http://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fina ... nsposition
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Post by birchwoodmusic » Thu Apr 16, 2020 11:36 pm

Thank you for all your help!

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