Are you on a Mac or Windows computer?

Mac ^^

In that case, the easiest way to set up shortcuts is in the Control Panel > Keyboard > App shortcuts. I have all of my F keys and a few others set up, there.

Oh thank you...uhmm.. but where is Control panel?  you mean system preference on the Mac?

Yes, sorry!

Yes, Mike means the System Preferences.

To add a keyboard shortcut for a Finale menu item, go to the Application Shortcuts, and click the + button.

oh yes thankyou 

uhmm..is that all? 

what's next on the finale..?

there is still nothing working shortcut..

You have to have the EXACT same wording for the shortcut as it is in the Finale menu. Also, some things just don't work with nested menus. Can you give us an example of which command you want, and which shortcut you want to assign? We can try it, and see if there is a problem.

oh yes. here is my setting..

I didn't do any thing on the finale . not yet..

I think the problem may be that you aren't listing the tools exactly as they are listed in the menu. For example, you have staff tool and I have Staff.

Spell it with the capital letter, and no word tool. Try just that one command, and see if it works.

oh it works~

uhm...I don't know..... just very few key is available for shortcut.

thank you for useful tip

but  I still really need to set my own shortcutㅠ

is there no other way on the finale itself for shortcut setting..?

… is there no other way on the finale itself for shortcut setting? …

Finale itself only has the programmable metatools.

You probably already know about the programmable metatools (- right?):

a) Transposition metatools on the four number keys 6 - 7 - 8 - 9.

The four defaults are {step down}, {step up}, {octave down}, {octave up}.

b) Metatools for chord symbols, tuplets, clefs, key signatures, time signatures, articulations, expressions, smart shapes.

To program a tuplet metatool you must be the Tuplet Tool.

To program a clef metatool you must be in the Clef Tool.

&c.

To program a metatool, hold down Shift, and hit the desired trigger key (e. g. the letter A key).

Finale will now display a window where you can choose, which item will be entered by the trigger key.

If you e. g. are in the Articulation Tool, then Finale will display the Articulation Selection window.

- But you probably already knew all that (?)

c) Tool metatools.

You can program 8 tool metatools, on the 8 middle row keys F, G, H, J, K, L, semicolon (;), or apostrophe (').

In this example let us say that you want to program the letter F key to the Articulation Tool.

To do so, hold down ctrl and option, and press the letter F key.

Finale displays the Master Tool Palette where you can select the Articulation Tool, either by clicking the tool icon, or by typing the tool’s number (= 13) in the field.

From now on, you can switch to the Articulation Tool with ctrl-F.

NB:

These tool metatools are document specific, not program specific.

You can have different tool metatools in different documents.

It might be a good idea to program tool metatools in your templates.

In that way all new documents based on that template will automatically have your programmed tool metatools.

yes thank you ~~^^

I 'll try ~