You have to enter the pickup in the score - in a part won't work. Once you do that, the first full measure will be measure #1, as you want.

Two solutions:

1) Document menu > Edit Measure Number Regions…

Select the measure number region you need to edit (in case the document contains more than one measure number region).

Set the region to include ‘Measure 2 Through …’

2) Measure Tool.

Double-click the first measure (= the pickup).

The dialog box Measure Attributes appears.

De-select the option ‘Include in Measure Numbering’.

Warning:

If one or more measures have the option ‘Include in Measure Numbering’ de-selected, you may sometimes experience that an action affects the wrong measure(s).

Fortunately there is a simple fix for this bug:

Go to

Preferences > View > Measure Numbers

and choose ‘Display Actual Measure Numbers’ (instead of Display Defined Measure Numbers).

This setting does not affect the layout; it only affects the measure numbers Finale displays in its dialog boxes.

Dear Bruce and Peter:

I have tried all of your suggestions and they don't seem to work.  I do not have a Finale "score"., just a hard copy.   I am preparing an individual part (for guitar) to replace a missing part from a big band chart.    All of the other parts in the chart begin the measure numbering on the measure after the pickup measure, so I need to number the measures in this part the same way.

Is there some way I can forward the part to you?

Malcolm Harris

If you are just transcribing just the guitar part, then for purposes of this question that is your score.

Is there some way I can forward the part to you?

In this forum you can not upload Finale documents.

You have to upload the document elsewhere, and here in the forum add a link to the document.

You can e. g. upload your Finale sample document in this, other Finale forum:

http://www.finaleforum.com/index.php