On Jan 7, 2006, at 7:15 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
Also,
I use this copying method extensively. In FinMac2006c, the tweaks
and changes they made to the copying behaviours seem to have nailed
it.
1. Select the passage you want to copy from.
2. Opt-shift click on the first measure you want to copy TO (I
don't know the Windows key. Maybe alt-shift?)
3. The dialogue box pops up, containing BOTH measure AND entry
items, and you can choose what you want. Furthermore, the dialogue
box remembers the previous settings. Typically, if I want to copy
slurs, I will just click the "None" box under Entries, then click
"Smart Shapes Assigned to Notes" and hit OK.
This behaviour differs from previous versions of Finale in one
important way: opt-shift clicking USED to be the same as drag-and-
drop; but now drag-and-drop does NOT give you the dialogue box that
opt-sh clicking gives you. So if you know for sure that you are
going to want the same items copied as the last time, use drag-and-
drop to skip the dialogue box.
Christopher
There is one more change in Finale's behavior: if you use opt-click
only, Finale skips the "Items to Copy" dialog box, so it saves a
step, if you know you have that correctly set.
To Brad, and others who might not have tried "Smart Find and Paint":
I find it quick and useful in many cases though, for some reason I
can't understand, it does not work on measure groups whose first
measure starts with a rest, so if you need to copy items in such
groups, you must use "Partial Measures", which has its own set of
fussy selection issues. It can be mastered quickly and I think it's
a good feature.
Chuck
Chuck Israels
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Bellingham, WA 98225-5836
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