Hi Arthur,

Is the whole piece in 4/4? Either way, you may want to try creating a new blank document with the Setup Wizard (File > New > Document With Setup Wizard) that has the same instruments, and then try copying and pasting the music from the scanned-in music document to this new one.

You may still have to do some editing, but this has helped clear up some oddities brought in with scanning in the past.

Let us know how this goes!

Scanned music pages often have difficulty interpreting what Finale would express as layers. When the OCR interprets second-layer notes in the same layer as layer-one notes, measures can overflow. I know of no way to correct this in the scan, but knowing what causes it may help you clean up those measures more easily.

Thanks Lawson.

I tried the method you outlined below. It worked - to a point. The magically appearing rests have disappeared, but another problem has cropped up. The first five or so bars were imported correctly. The next bar had only half the number of notes it should have and pushed the second half of that measure into the next measure.

So, I had to do quit a bit of editing to get everything to where I wanted it. I was, however, able to learn the section, so in the final analysis, Finale was a great help.

(BTW, is there a way to copy only a portion of a bar and paste it into another bar? Every time I tried to select more than a single note or rest, the entire bar was selected)

Art

Arthur Utay,

You wrote:

“… is there a way to copy only a portion of a bar and paste it into another bar? …”

For partial measure selection, begin the dragging outside the staff.