is the value 1 a value of 1 inch?

One can select the measurement units.

In the Mac version of Finale the Measurement Units sub-menu is located in the Finale menu.

Quoting power user Jim Coull:

… You can change the measurement units “on the fly” by typing in a number in one of the measurement dialogs followed by
e for EVPUs (or evpus, or EVPUs)
pt for points (or pts, or points) 1pt = 4e
s for spaces (or sp, or spaces) 1s = 6pt
p for picas (or pi, or picas) 1p = 2s
i for inches (or ", or in, or inch, or inches) 1i = 6p
c for centimeters (or cm, or centimeters)
m for millimeters (or mm, or millimeters)
(BTW, these are all listed in the online docs, I think in the section on the Measurement Units submenu.) For example, I usually leave the default units to Inches, but if I want to move an articulation horizontally over by a small amount, I just type "2e" in the H box in the Change Articulation Assignments dialog, and Finale does the rest.

Note: When you’re overriding the default setting in this way, you even have an extra unit option (millimeters) not available in the sub-menu for Measurement Units …

thank you !

Hello everybody

thanks for the help, i have one more urgent problem

so i set 1 inch margin, the problem is that the name of the orchestral instrument break the 1 inch margin, which has to be blank

i ve tried, but i dont know how to do it, how to put the instrument name outside the 1 inch margin? nothing needs to be in the 1 inch blank space

please help

i use finale with mac, 

thanks so much!

Which margin(s) you set determine how Finale handles instrument names that extend to the left of system margins. If the system margin is set to zero, then instrument names will print to the left of the page margin as well.

Matteo,

What may not be real clear is there are two separate margin settings you must set. The System Margins and the Page Margins.