Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
You probably mean that Finale starts creating a new system for each measure. Are the new systems locked? If yes, then unlock the new systems, and Update Layout.
1) All the (same year) siblings in the Finale family use the same file format. However, there are differences between the version years (not between the siblings of the same version year). 2) T...
In Finale 2012: Staff Tool. Staff menu > Define Staff Styles… The dialog box is quite similar to the Staff Attributes. However, your description “Staff>Define Staff Style>>Available files.drop do...
@ 1: Since you tell that you “wrote a part for horn and saved it”, I suppose that the document is a 1-instrument score, right? My first guess is that you on the computer screen are viewing the “sco...
Instead of using the Staff Attributes to de-select “Display Rests in Empty Measures”, use a custom staff style, and apply that custom staff style to a selected region.
If I understand you correctly, all the four triplets should be defined as “3 Eighths in the space of 2 Eighths” - right? My guess is that the third triplet is incorrectly defined as “3 Sixteenths...
Nr. 1. may - may not - not be a bug. If I understand you correctly, the saved document displays - on the computer screen - multimeasure rests as you need them, but they are broken in the print, rig...
This notation is called cross-staff notes. You can search for info about cross-staff notes in the on-line manual. Basically you first enter all the notes in one staff. The layout will - temporari...
There is no Finale 2017. You probably mean Finale v25. Unfortunately you can only export back to the Finale 2012 .mus file format, not to 2011. Your best option is export to a MusicXML file. Fina...
What works for me, is - in the part - creating a new text block, and pasting the text instruction into the text block. If you can not make the text block “behave”, try a slightly different approa...