The new copying behavior introduced in Fin2k5 has unintended consequences for copying within the *same* document, or for copying into a template where you *don't* want the measure expressions to carry over from the clip file (or clipboard), but it actually works quite well for its intended purpose, which is making it easier to combine multiple Finale files into a single file.
I had to combine eleven individual movements, each a separate file, into one master score back in Fin2k4, and there's just no way I would have been able to do that in any reasonable period of time without Mass Copy.
- Darcy ----- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brooklyn, NY
On 26 Apr 2005, at 2:23 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
On 26 Apr 2005 at 14:11, Darcy James Argue wrote:
Fin2003 can't easily do what you want to do.
Well, that's just not going to happen for two reasons:
1. I can't afford it right now.
2. I'm not upgrading as protest of the lack of key escrow for the authorization.
Also, haven't you all been nattering on today about all the problems with new copying behavior in 05? That sounds much worse than what I've had to deal with.
I would recommend either upgrading to Fin2005 (where the new copying features may actually *help* you), or using Robert Patterson's Mass Copy plugin, which makes combining multiple files much easier.
Well, I loaded the test version of this a while back, but it's expired, so I can't tell if it resolves my problems. I don't see any way to uninstall the old trial version (which I never got around to trying out) so that I can try the current version.
I'm not about to spend money on it if I can't test it!
But I'm much more willing to spend it on a plugin than on the upgrade.
-- David W. Fenton http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc
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