Look up staff styles in the manual, you'll find them there.
Have you tried creating a text expression for this using the Maestro Times font?
With the key signature tool, double click on measure 44. Choose A major and at the bottom, choose "Hold note to original pitches enharmonically". Then click OK. What does that do?
As I said in my previous post, which transposition option did you choose when setting the A major key signature?
Midi files can be saved with key signatures or without them. If Finale imports it in the key of C, it appears to me that the key signature information is not included in the midi file. It shouldn't...
With the measure attributes tool, double click on the last measure in line 1. Put a checkmark next to "Hide Cautionary Clefs, Key signatures and Time Signatures". And for the first measure in lin...
Can't answer your specific midi question, just a note about opening old files. The oldest files I have on hand are from Finale 2002. I was able to open those easily with Finale 26. Everything was t...
I don't believe there's any way to automate this process. You can create a document style from a file that you want to use as your master, you then apply the custom document style while in the setu...
In your Finale Preferences, go to palettes and Backgrounds. Near the bottom of the DBX you'll see Manuscript Texture. You can choose a texture with a lighter color or select the "solid color" butto...
Are you referring to placement of these custom expressions always defaulting to the beginning of the measure? Each expression has a positioning tab where you can specify the default placement. If...