Sounds like a job for layers and hidden rests to align the triplets.

Thanks for the response! Your idea worked!

Second question: Is it possible to draw the secondary beams in the triplets all the way across the group, as shown in my example in the OP?

As it is right, this is what it looks like:

As a side note: I'm entering in Rachmaninoff's second sonata as I find recreating scores in the best way to learn the finer and more advanced points of Finale, as well as study scores for composition purposes. And considering that I am here asking for help, I think I may correct in my belief that I will learn new ways to notate in Finale~

Hi Alfred

Here's an interesting way to get what you want, without using layers

Enter the music as you require

Split the sextuplets into two sets of three (I did it using the simple entry tool, selecting the 4th note of each set and pressing "/")

I then used the tuplet tool to remove the brackets from the sextuplets (they appeared when I broke them into two). That's the selection handle you see in the image above.

Next, select the "Double/Split stem tool". It's in the "Special tools" palette

Click in the measure with the music, and select the handle above the second note in each set of three

Next, select the "Beam Stem Adjust tool" (again, special tools palette)

Use the tool and select the top handle of the stem going into the upper beam. Drag the stem down until it's no more than a dot, and shift it into one of the noteheads of the down-stem chord. I've left the last stem stub selected and positoined away from the notehead so that you can see what I mean

Select the Beam Extension tool

Drag the top beam from each separated sextuplet to the left. Again, I've only partially done the last one, to illustrate the process.

Et voilà - c'est fini

Cheers...

Daz :o)

I am hesitant to download files. Is this what you mean by beaming? I just entered the layer two sixteenths as triplets. I can usually control beaming using the slash key in Speedy Entry if I need to fine tune. To join the sixteenth beams, I expect you'll have to use Daz's solution.

You can apparently also set the Beam prefs in Document Options, resetting the MIDI > Quantization (to 32nds) and using MIDI > Retranscribe (on a COPY of your file), but you will have to rehide the hidden rests.

Thank you all for responding!

And Darrin, that is EXCELLENT Finale-juggling! Thank you so much!

Darrin Smith, thank you for your instruction on custom beaming. I was tearing my hair out over this; Finale's instruction manual wasn't much help -- the info was probably in there somewhere, but your instructions were very clear and immensely helpful!

Another solution that also works:

Do not hide the rests (since hiding the rests will break the secondary beams).

Instead, move the rests vertically down below the bottom of the page.

In that way the rests will not print - even if they are not hidden.

To move the rests, use the plug-in Move Rests.