I realize I wasn't clear about "moving around in Speedy". I didn't mean Note Positioning. In your example, suppose you want that (if treble clef) B to be the first note in the next bar. So you position your cursor on it and enter a quarter rest and a half rest, then select "Move to Next Measure" when the dialog pops up. Problem is your expression remains stuck uselessly on what is now a quarter rest.

Perhaps I'm minsunderstanding, but surely it's easier to select the three notes and drag them to the next bar, followed by Backspace or Clear to delete the source, than to insert rests in Speedy and invoke the Too Many Beats dialog. In fact, wouldn't the dialog pop up when you entered the first of the two rests?

If you turn off "Jump to Next Measure" the db doesn't pop up until you leave the measure. I use this workflow *all the time*. Usually it is when I need to insert a couple of beats and slide everything else to the right into a measure I have inserted a few bars later. If you find using copy/paste easier, that's fine by me. I won't try to convert you. But what I find unacceptable is that when expressions were attached to notes...they stayed attached to the notes. Now they don't.

Ah, "Jump to Next Measure". We all have our different ways and uses for Finale, so I wasn't casting aspersions. What is the barbell U.I.?

The barbell U.I. is the dotted blue line with circles on either end that shows the beat attachment for expressions and smart shapes. (A line with circles on each end is a "barbell".)

You mentioned the "Too Many Notes" dialog. Another horrid decision by (then) Coda Music was to remove the cancel button from that dialog. When it had a cancel button you never had to change the speedy option. You could simply hit escape until you were ready to jump.

They could use that to show whether something is beat- or note-attached, but you'd still need a way of specifying which when you assigned it. I guess it could be in the expression definition like it used to be. I have to guess that there was some technical reason for making everything beat attached.

Just a thought:

Articulations are note attached.

Instead of re-introducing note attached expressions, perhaps it would be better to extend the Articulation Tool’s functionality?

In Other Words:

Would it be better to add the (now removed) {note attached expressions} features to the Articulation Tool?

At this point I think there are probably other priorities than reintroducing note-attached expressions. This post was only to point out the shortcomings that still remain with beat-attached.

As to Bryan's question about how they could have been integrated, we currently choose a horizontal positioning method. For my money, every one of the horizontal positioning options with the word "Notehead" in it could have and should have been note-attached positioning options. My Mass Copy plugin still separates these as if they were note-attached and so does the Mass Edit copy filter of Finale. (Though Finale bases it on category. But it works out to be basically the same if you use default settings.)