Mac Finale, v27.4, Mac OS X 14.7.6 (Sonoma), iMac Apple M3, 24 GB RAM
You mention “Speedy Entry”, but your description - select a note and press "9" - sounds like Simple Entry. Are you using Speedy Entry or Simple Entry?
There are many possible culprits here: 1) Bug in Finale. If it is a bug, then the problem should happen in all documents. Does it happen in all documents? Can you provide exact steps to reproduce...
Are you talking about a single note here and there - or a lot of notes, like all the notes in a selected region? For a single note I would use the Specials Tools Tool, sub-tool Note Shape Tool. A...
We need more info from you: Go to the folder where your chord suffix library is stored. Select your chord suffix library, and hit Command-I to open the Info window - which among other things displa...
When you add measures to the piece, Finale creates new systems and pages. The formatting of these new systems/pages is defined here: Document menu > Page Format > Score… In Other Words: When it c...
Perhaps you are looking in the wrong folders. There are two identical named Finale folder hierarchies. One resides in the Library folder in your Mac OS X user account. This (user account) Libra...
Perhaps it is simpler to - 1) Enter the “lyrics rhythm” in Layer 4. 2) Attach the lyrics to Layer 4. 3) Hide Layer 4 (use Blank Notation in Layer 4). If playback is important, disable playback of L...
When you use playback through Audio Units, the saved audio will be in AIF format. You can convert the audio to other file formats, like e. g. WAV or MP3, with Apple’s iTunes. When you use playbac...
For What Is Worth, I am unable to duplicate your problem. I can make Finale beam over rests, and in Speedy Entry I can join/break beams. I think that we need more info from you: 1) What is the ti...
What version of Finale? - perhaps v27? Does the icon with the “little blue staff-lines” show in all tools? In the screen shot it looks like you are in the Page Layout Tool.