Finale 27 ignores my manual adjustments

[Alicia Morgan]

Hi all -

In working with Finale 27 on Big Sur, I am finding that my usual manual positioning of expressions and lyrics are ignored by Finale and snap back to either a lower or higher position. Am I just missing a document option or preference or is this something that Finale 27 does? I'm used to moving things around when I want to and have not had this issue before.

Thanks! Alicia

[miker]

Please read up on Snap to Grid.

https://usermanuals.finalemusic.com/Fin ... 0to%20grid

It appears from the comments I've seen that the presets in F27 are different from what they were in earlier versions.

[Alicia Morgan]

Thanks! I did deselect all the snap to grid/guides. It still doesn't work, but I can use the arrow keys on my laptop to move things and they seem to be staying. So I can live with that. I just need items to go where I want them to go.

It could, also, have something to do with being an imported XML file, perhaps? I haven't tried one that I started myself.

[miker]

Possibly. Try it with a new doc, and see.

[miker]

A response from David Cusick, at Finale HQ:


This issue is with Finale v27.0 on macOS 11 Big Sur only. Selecting the Simple Entry tool, then closing and reopening the file is current work around until we have a permanent fix (which we are currently working on).
You can get more details on the issue at our knowledge base article here:

https://makemusic.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ ... 11-Big-Sur

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