… I want to move from 4/4 into cut-time …

What do you mean?

1) You have entered the entire piece in 4/4, and now find out that 2/2 better fits the character of the music,

or

2) The first region of the document is in 4/4, and the next region is in 2/2.

Which is it? 1) or 2)?

Anyway, there are several possible culprits.

One possible culprit:

Measure Tool.

Double-click the measure.

In the Measure Attributes, in the pop up menu Time Signature, is the measure set to, Always Hide its time signature?

It says, Show when needed.

#2  score is in 4/4 and next region 2/2

Tracy,

You do not say what version of Finale or Operating system you are using. That makes a difference whether you can change time signatures at all.

Please use the pull-down behind your name at the very top of the screen to add this info to your Profile/Signature. Although many fields in the profile are pre-assigned, you can still enter program and OS information in the information box so it will appear on each of your posts.

Tried that, but it won't let me change/add anything in my profile.

PC   Windows 10

Finale 2014.5

Tracy Behrman,

Have you looked in the Measure Attributes (see my previous post)?

… It says, Show when needed …

In that case I suspect that the culprit can be found in the Time Signature Tool.

The dialog box Time Signature can be expanded to show the option “Use a Different Tims Signature for Display”.

I suspect that the “real time signature” is set to 2/2, and that the “display time signature” is set to 4/4.

>> Tried that, but it won't let me change/add anything in my profile.

Tracy (and others who have not yet updated their profiles with Finale version and computer OS),

It is possible (via the pull-down behind your name at the very top of the screen);

 EDIT: Thank you, Tracy. You did it!