Christopher Smith
Finale 27.2.0.142 for Mac OS 10.15.7 (Catalina)
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Edit menu>Multimeasure Rests>Create for parts/score, select all of the parts and hit Okay. Do this before you start to format. In all recent versions, I am obliged to do this or risk having materia...
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- Fermatas keep flipping up and down (won't stay on one side of note or rest)
Try a caesura on the default Maestro file. Those slippery bastards are nuts! Drag it up or down and then click away from it and try to drag it again. Jump! Then hit cmd-D (on my Mac) to redraw the ...
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Victor, you can aver all you like and still have missed something. I certainly do, even after almost-daily use since version 3.2. Is there an expression in bar 18 that was unwittingly set to brea...
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Victor, the most likely culprit is your 17th bar having the barline set to break. In the Measure Tool, double click the 17th bar to see its attributes. If that is indeed the problem, then you will ...
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Ah ha! I found the reason why I won't check "Update Page Format"! It's because Finale then will read the default page format values, EVEN IN THE PART WHERE YOU RESIZED! So let's say I resize my pia...
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It was never a Staff Style, but you CAN enter it as an expression on four measures that have had their default whole rests hidden with a Blank staff style, or turned into a four-bar rest and edited...
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My advice is uncheck the item that J Adrian Verkouteren pointed out AS SOON AS YOU INSTALL FINALE and leave it off forever. I can't stand apps that think they know what I want better than I do, esp...
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This is the famous Dancing Articulations bug. It is at least ten years old. It affects articulations that have automatic placements that are outside the staff and seems to be affected by staff redu...
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Thank you, Lawson, for the reassurance. Judging by how long it took to correct the non-transposing chords bug (ten years) I'd say that we are coming up on the ten year solution on this one, too (s...
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There was some reason why I would not check "Update Page Format" that was very good, but I can't remember it. It was discussed in an exchange with tech support a couple of years ago, which I would ...