Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
Have you trashed the Preferences file? That is the first thing I would try.
Before you can hide the empty staff “locally”, take a look at the staff group’s Group Attributes. In the pop up menu “When Hiding”, choose “Hide Normally”. To hide a staff “locally”, use a staf...
Utilities menu > Change Instrument… Have you tried that? … I have not extracted any individual parts, yet … Are you sure you need to extract parts? Finale has had linked parts since Finale 2007...
… copy paste chords from a standard staff (piano,trumpet,sax etc … By your word “chords”, do you mean Chord Symbols? Like Dm7? Or do you mean (note) chords? Like written out in notes? For trans...
1) For showing, how to execute various trills, it is not standard practice to add slurs in the ossia. 2) You tell that you have entered the slurs "as note shapes” in the scratch staff. I am not s...
Let me get this straight: You are trying to create a time signature of 8/4, displaying as 3+3+2 over 4 - right? You are telling that “it's not working”. Could you be more specific? What is not wo...
… I see that it's in the Speedy Entry Tool. I never use that. Is it something I'd normally want, or would I have to go back and forth with select, de-select, etc. … Both the Speedy Entry Tool a...
… dotted-quarter-note quintuplet over the whole measure doesn't … There are several ways to enter a tuplet. One of the ways (= probably the way you are entering a tuplet) will not let you end a m...
Try the {across system break} method. When you have run the plug-in, the solution will stay the same, even if you re-arrange the measures so that the beaming no longer goes across a system break
… First, with the Selection tool, select just the area you want beamed together (in this case the last quarter and first eighth of the following measure) … In my experience there is no need to se...