hey adam,

 It worked! Hallelujah! Thx so much. So i guess i'll just re-generate parts as a rule before formatting....?

It works as long as you realize that you have to do all that special formatting again.

Hi guys!

It's true that Adam's suggestion would wipe out any formatting you've done, so an alternate option to preserve formatting is to use the Staff Tool, select the staff in question (while viewing the full score), and choose Staff > Use Selected Staff Style for Score and Parts.

This is a very old bug dating back to the first version of Finale that used Linked Parts. MakeMusic claimed to have fixed it some years back, but as you can see, it is still there, confusing the heck out of users.

For the love of all that is holy, do NOT regenerate parts, unless you haven't touched them yet! Chad Mathis' answer is the correct one. Chad, you should delete Adam Wig's answer before he causes more damage to clients' work.

christopher, can you please explain? What is the danger of using Adam's method, it did work. I'm very confused.

The danger of Adam's method is that you lose EVERYTHING you have ever done to the linked parts—formatting, resizing, nudging expressions, hiding or showing things, and voicing in the case of voiced linked parts.

If you are doing a big band chart, for example, and you get to the piano part after formatting 13 wind parts and notice the slash notation problem, regenerating parts at that point would lose ALL the formatting in the wind parts! This might be hours of work.

If you have created a score with voiced staves (flute 1 and 2 on the same score staff, but separate parts with different voicing rules) then ALL of that is lost when you regenerate parts. I use a score template where all of that is set up already, which took me a few hours to get right. It would infuriate me to lose all that because of bad advice from a MakeMusic customer support person.

This is also a reason to back up your file before you try any major (or possibly major) change on a file.

I actually back my files up every time I work on them. In most cases the .musx file take up little space; so when I take up yesterday's file BrilliantComposition170102, the first thing I do is save it back to its original project folder called BrilliantCompo, of course) as BrilliantComposition170103. The suffix is a date stamp, of course, in the sortable format yymmdd.

Please check that great old forum. All these topics were discussed there many times already. I wonder if Make Music listens at least now, if they have this brand new forum.

Whether you like the changes just made to this forum or not, it shows that MM staff are listening.

I would be happy if it would be so. For example if they finally fix this bug.

Hey All,

I just wanted to chime in and confirm that this issue has been reported to our development team. Due to the nature of the development process I do not have a guaranteed time frame to provide for a resolution to the issue, but I do want to assure you that our developers take such reports seriously.

Hope this helps. Thank you all for your input!

Thank you, Lawson, for the reassurance.
Judging by how long it took to correct the non-transposing chords bug (ten years) I'd say that we are coming up on the ten year solution on this one, too (since 2007).
While you're at it, see if you can get the misbehaving grace notes fixed in voiced linked parts. It's been ten years for that one, too. This one makes linked parts pretty much unusable in orchestra scores.
The lack of a method to resize chord symbols isn't quite at ten years yet, so I won't hold my breath on that one.

Thank you, Lawson for quick response. I will desperately wait for the next update.