At 3:32 PM 05/23/02, helgesen wrote: >My question is, if changing the key does NOT affect a drumkit >part, (Finale obviously knows this!) why does mass moving a drum part carry >the original key with it? I can understand Timps, but not Kit. Why doesn't >Finale know not to?
Because Finale doesn't think that way. When you mass copy a measure, Finale is going to copy every attribute of that measure unless you tell it not to. Every measure has a key signature attribute. Even if your drumkit part is making no use of it and not displaying it, it's still there. So it gets copied. >Can I avoid this happening? Yes. Finale lets you tell it exactly what you want copied in any Mass Mover action. Look under the Mass Mover menu in the third section. You probably have "Copy Everything" checked. If you select "Copy Entry Items" and/or "Copy Measure Items", you'll get a list of different attributes and you can select which ones you want and which ones you don't. If you want to copy everything BUT key signature: Select Copy Entry Items and choose all; then select Copy Measure Items, choose all, and UNselect key signatures. I'd guess that most of the other measure items are things you don't want either, so you might do fine to just select everything under Entry Items and skip Measure Items altogether. mdl _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
