In reply to your admonition about using serial #.  With several contacts thru the years since I started using Finale in 1998, I was told, either in print with my message, or asked for it when I phoned, I was told to ALWAYS give my serial#  with any correspondence. I did not know that policy had changed. I did not think my message would even be responded to without it.

I had already tried the solution suggested to me, using the "layer only" method of applying staff styles. It did change the layer to rhythm notation, BUT, I had entered the "hits" on the high A line and they were moved to the middle B line, erasing the slashes placed there using layer 1. That's not what I wanted, but I can li ve with it......

Thanks,  Ned