Randy, I've been through my whole bag of tricks, and I can't find a way. There doesn't seem to be any way of changing the default font for the File Info window to something that has the flat character.

Can you give me a little more info of what you're trying to do? Is this something that will show up on the score, or is it just for your information? Is there a reason that the lower case b won't work for you?

Hi Mike,

It was in the description of what I arranged and would go on the title page (Bb Clarinet).  I'm OK with lower case b under the circumstances.  Thanks for trying at least!

Thanks,

Randy

Randy,

If you enter the text on the title page itself, you can enter the flat symbol, since you can choose the font. It's just in the File Info dialogue that you can't.

As you have found out, in a File Info field a ♭ insert from

Text menu > Inserts > Flat

does not work.

You can get a ♭ in a File Info field by using a Unicode font, and by using the ♭ symbol from the Unicode font’s own section with music symbols.

The attached graphic shows a text block using the font Arial Unicode MS.

Excellent, Peter. I tried everything I knew, except for that. I didn't know that the font was Arial.

It still didn't work with PopChar, but it gave me the Unicode Hex number, and I was able to enter it from there.

… It still didn't work with PopChar, but it gave me the Unicode Hex number, and I was able to enter it from there …

I used the Mac OS X utility - with an icon in the right half of the menu bar.

I am not sure what the utility is called since it displays as an icon - perhaps Keyboard menu. (?)

The utility gives easy access to emoticons and font characters.

I just looked there, in the same font, and didn't see it. Which group did you find it, in?

In Windows Character Map there does not seem to be a Music subset of the Arial Unicode character set.

Pity.

I am not sure what the utility is called since it displays as an icon - perhaps Keyboard menu. (?)

On a Mac, it's System Preferences/Keyboard  Check the box for Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar 

On some systems, you will now see a keyboard in the Menu Bar.

If you have set up more than one keyboard language to chose from in Preferences, you will see a flag indicating the keyboard language instead.

Adrian,

In my Arial Unicode MS font, there is a group called Miscellaneous Symbols, and it's in there.

Just for fun, in that font, try ALT+9837, or, if you can do a Hex input, 266D.

Another way:

Use the {keyboard and emoji viewer} to insert the ♭ into a word processor (e. g. TextEdit).

From there, select the ♭, copy it to the Clipboard, and paste it into the Finale text field.

You can save the word processing document for later use (or, even faster, paste the ♭ into the word precessing document’s file name).

Mike R,

On my Windows system, the Unicode subrange only has a Miscellaneous Technical category which have what looks like about four or five calculus symbols in them.

Thanks for the suggestion, nonetheless. I don't find putting the flat in a instrument name a big problem for me. If worse comes to worse, I can put the instrument name in as text, as you suggested above.