Michael Crutcher,

We need more info.

… First, it seems as though "Manual Input" is the default setting, and I can't shut it off …

In the top of the Chord menu you have the choice between four input options:

1. Manual Input (with the sub-option Allow MIDI Input)

2. One-Staff Analysis

3. Two-Staff Analysis

4. All-Staff Analysis

If I understand you correctly, you do not want Manual Input (you want to “shut it off”).

But then, what do you want?

- One-Staff Analysis ?

- Two-Staff Analysis ?

- All-Staff Analysis ?

… When I enter the chord, either by Manual Input and then double-click the chord handle, or double-click the note to get the Chord Definition dialogue box, I have the option to pick the Fretboard ID. However, when I choose "Select...", the fretboard diagram that I want, is not a choice. I pick one of the duplicate chords, select "Edit", pick the fretboard diagram that I want, hit "Okay", and end up with the same fretboard diagram that I started with …

I am trying to understand your steps.

When you say

“… I have the option to pick the Fretboard ID. However, when I choose "Select...", the fretboard diagram that I want …”,

you arrive at the dialog box Fretboard Selection, right?

When you say

“… I pick one of the duplicate chords, select "Edit" …”,

you arrive at the Fretboard Editor, right?

When you say

“… pick the fretboard diagram that I want …”,

then, are you talking about the twelve small fretboard diagrams at the bottom of the Fretboard Editor?

Or, are you editing the big fretboard diagram at the top of the Fretboard Editor?

>> What happened to clicking on the note and the "Chord Definition" box coming up?

I do not remember that being an option, at least not in any recent version of Finale I can recall.b The best I can remember is that clicking on a note brought up a prompt line above the staff where I could enter manually (and get the chord panel be adding the colon-zero suffix) or enter via a MIDI keyboard, since I had sleected that as an option in the Chord menu.