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Paul Inwood
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by Paul Inwood » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:14 pm
The title speaks for itself.
I have a guitar chord (and capo chord) appearing over a beat where there is no note actually present on that beat. The chords are grey instead of black in the score and do not appear at all in a PDF. How to fix this?
I am using Finale 26.3 and did not have this problem with previous versions.
Attachment shows the measure in question. Over beat 3 there should be Am7 and (capo'd) F#m7. Even the jpeg does not include them. I don't want to go down the road of tying a half-note chord to a quarter-note chord just to make the chords visible when printed or exported. That always looks so clunky!
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zuill
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by zuill » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:29 pm
The picture doesn't help. We need to examine the file to find out what happened.
Zuill
Windows 10, Finale 2011-v26.3.1
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
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Paul Inwood
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by Paul Inwood » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:38 pm
Attached is a screen shot of the score, where the greyed-out chords are visible.
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Paul Inwood
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by Paul Inwood » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:42 pm
zuill wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:29 pm
The picture doesn't help. We need to examine the file to find out what happened.
Zuill
Fils is 162KB, which I believe is too big to upload?
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zuill
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by zuill » Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:50 pm
Have you Right Clicked the Chord Handle to make sure Show is selected?
Zuill
Windows 10, Finale 2011-v26.3.1
"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
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Paul Inwood
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by Paul Inwood » Thu Nov 19, 2020 3:27 pm
zuill wrote: ↑Tue Nov 17, 2020 5:50 pm
Have you Right Clicked the Chord Handle to make sure Show is selected?
Zuill
That seems to have fixed it. Many thanks! Now to find out why Show wasn't checked like all the other chords — presumably something to do with the absence of notation in the r.h. on that beat.
