Mac OS 13.7 Ventura, MuseScore Studio 4.6.6, Finale 26.3, 27, SmartScore 64 Pro | Copyist for the Barbershop Harmony Society | wawoodman at aol dot com
What else do you see?
I'm not sure what you mean. You can notate a single staff, easily. Just start with the default document, and change it to whatever instrument you want in the Score Manager.
PM will certainly do a lot more than NotePad. I'd suggest you download the demo, and try it out for a month. If it does everything you need it to do, great. If not, then worry about going to Finale...
What app are you trying to open it, in? I would send that directly to tech support.
If it's not on your computer, the files won't open. I don't remember if 2011 was a download, or on media. If it was a download, you should be able to get it from your account. If it was on media, b...
If you're on a Mac, try setting it up as a keyboard shortcut, in System Preferences>keyboard
Thanks for that, JAV. I was on the iPad, so I couldn't do the picture!
You can do it on a system-by-system basis with the Staff tool, and "hide empty staves." This means that you have to set up your score so that the empty measures span a full system.
Do you have the "to coda" set to the proper measure number and pass?
What version of Finale are you running?