Document menu > Document Options > Multimeasure Rests

De-select the option “Update Automatically”.

NB:

The setting “Update Automatically” is a document setting, not a program setting.

thanks, that fixed it.  I just hope it doesn't have any negative effects.  Generally turning off an auto update means you don't get the automatically adjustments you are hoping for so maybe this is something that I would want to do at the final 'clean-up' of the score.

Tom Carrith,

You wrote:

“Generally turning off an auto update means you don't get the automatically adjustments you are hoping for so maybe this is something that I would want to do at the final 'clean-up' of the score.”

Actually it is quite the opposite:

You should turn “Update Automatically” ON during the initial phase where you enter the music from Scroll View.

Then “Update Automatically” will break multimeasure rests (and adjust measure widths) as you enter music into empty measures.

You should turn “Update Automatically” OFF in the final phase where you have finished entering music, and are working on the layout.

In that way you can avoid that Finale destroys your layout work on multimeasure rests and measure widths.

Thanks for this post. I was having a similar problem: I adjusted certain multimeasure rests so that the number was below, rather than above, the rest. Upon printing, this adjustment was undone and the print ruined. I used your post's information to turn off the Update Automatically button and the printing was fine. Thanks again!