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
Ed, I generally work like you do: scroll view for note input, and then to page view for layout and final editing. But everyone has their own preferences and methods.
I don't recall any Finale 2023. Could you check that, please? What is your Mac operating system? Do you have Auto Save set up? Time Machine? Any other backup plan? Even if Finale crashes, you sho...
Did you uninstall before you reinstalled? There may have been damaged files that weren’t overwritten. Might there have been a Windows update?
Do you mean it’s playing behind the green bar? What version of Finale? Try these: 1. Restart Finale 2. Shut down and reboot the computer 3. Refresh the preferences
Christine, Send me one document by email. Send it to wawoodman at aol dot com. (Replace the at with @ and dot with a period)
There isn’t any way to “lock” a Finale doc from opening, as far as I know. Could you put one of them on Dropbox, and see if one of us can open it? There have been no updates to PrintMusic for Mac ...
Ed, Are you on Windows or Mac? On a Mac, right click on the file, and choose Get Info. Windows, I don't know. But unless it's a 30 page orchestral score, I doubt it's big enough to matter.
After you’ve done that, save a library of the chords. Then, you can use them in other documents.
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John, Is this in all documents? Have you tied it in a new default doc? Would you be open to a Zoom?