On Tuesday, October 15, 2002, at 10:17  PM, Doug Auwarter wrote:

> on 10/14/02 11:19 PM, Crystal Premo at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> << In one of the stupid little things it does, it converts the whole 
>> thing
>> to slash or regular. How do I make it only convert part of the staff? 
>> >>
>>
>> Using the Staff Tool, select only the measures you wish to have 
>> appear as
>> slash notation (on my MAC:  click the first one, shift click the last 
>> one)
>> and choose Slash Notation from the Apply Staff Styles menu.  There's a
>> built-in shortcut you can use instead of the menu.  On the MAC it's 
>> the
>> letter "S".  You can use this with Select Partial Measures as well.
>
> I haven't been following this thread too closely, so I apologize if 
> this has
> already been given, but the way I do this is to make quarter notes 
> where I
> want slashes, then choose the special tools palette; double click the
> quarter note that you want to change to a slash, choose the note 
> shapes tool
> and choose a slash note head, then the special stems tool and choose
> stemless notes. Voila--measures with both slashes and conventional 
> notation.
> Best,
> Doug

This used to be the old workaround, but it is obsolete as of Finale 
2000 because you can simply apply the appropriate staff style to a 
partial measure.  This cumbersome workaround was only necessary because 
pre-Fin2000, alternate notation would only work on full measures.

- Darcy

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