Ernest Biggs,

Try this:

Open the document, and view the Flute 1 part.

Selection Tool. Select All the measures in the Flue 1 part.

Edit menu > Multimeasure Rests > Create

Explanation:

The step of creating multimeasure rests will also break any multimeasure rests that have notes in them (= the measures are not empty).

Yes I did that. It was easy to fix but what I wanted t know is why it did it happen in the first place. I didn't tell Finale to do it. I don't think you can create multimeasure rests in measures that have notes in them. It is definitely easy to miss especially since I have never seen it happen before so was not really looking for it.

I only have measure numbers along the left side and under multimeasure rests. Obliviously Finale thought it was a multimeasure rest. Plus it only happened on the Flute 1 part not the Flute 2 or Oboe parts which are basically identical.

… I don't think you can create multimeasure rests in measures that have notes in them …

My guess is that it happened “the other way around”:

You first created multimeasure rests, then (probably via Scroll View) entered notes into the empty measures.

A common workflow among Finale users is to, first

- 1) enter the music,

next

- 2) work on the layout.

During 1) it might be convenient to have the following document option selected:

Document menu > Document Options > Multimeasure Rests > Update Automatically

The option Update Automatically will automatically break a multimeasure rest as you enter music into the empty measures.

But at the same time Update Automatically will reset all measure widths to the defaults.

Which is fine during note entry = 1), but not so good when you are working on the layout = 2).

You can de-select Update Automatically when you have finished 1), before you begin 2).

Peter I appreciate your effort to answer such odd thing but I don't think you understand. There were no multileasure rest created by me. I did nothing different on this score than I have on the several dozen other scores of mine. And probably hundreds of other folks scores. 

The one thing that is sorta out of procedure for me is the JW Copy Part Layout plug-in because I never had it until 27.3 came standard issue with it. But I have used it on several other scores and this did not happen. Plus I didn't use it on the Flute 1 part at all. It was the part the others were to copy from.

There isn't even a multimeasure rest close (22 measures away) to measure 55 in the Flue 1 part. The big thing you can't create multimeasure rest if the measure has notes in it which the Flute 1 part did.

Yes I check there was no Staff Style applied. And Flute 2 was rendered correctly.