I use "Show active layer" a lot, along with "changing enharmonic spelling" (who doesn't?) and: Measurement units File Info (where data for text block inserts can be stored) Page Setup Extract Parts (who doesn't?) Update Smart Word Exts (because leaving it on auto slows everything down) Display in/out of concert pitch Tile Windows (esp. when copying from one score to another) Numerous Finale and TG Tools Plug-ins Large amounts of Mass Mover menu selections Insert/Delete Page breaks Optimizing Options Anything to do with lyrics - In fact the only short cuts under the Lyrics tool are for alignment and justification - big deal! Show me even the most basic word processor that doesn't have that. And on and on... My point is that NONE of these 'everyday' tasks have direct finale kbd shortcuts. Why not? When you scan over the allocations they are pretty scant and there are an awful lot of keystrokes still available. I don't see why I should have to waste my time using a third party app. where the shortcuts only need to be altered anyway on each Finale upgrade as they move all the goal posts - I had all that years back with Quickeys. It makes me laugh how the programmers can't be bothered to build in sensible shortcuts but are quite prepared to change all the menu items over and over, knowing full well that hundreds of dedicated users have only now to trawl through all their third party shortcut routines to suit. Real time saver that one. Every upgrade comes with more changes to menus, more items moved to a different locations but with little change in kbd shortcuts (you only have to follow a few threads on this list to realise how confused users get with menu changes) Why, oh why is page/scroll view now allocated in 2006 to control E?!! Surely a logical choice would have been 'E'nharmonic spelling. Why is there no contextual menu for speedy entry like there is for simple entry? I should by now (my 14th upgrade) be able to ctrl click on a note-head and get a drop down menu enabling me to perform all kinds of instant wonders - but no - nothing. While I'm on a rant, which clever Trevor decided to pop in the "Items to copy" dialogue EVERY time I want to mass mover copy something. (Someone, please tell me there is way out of this annoyance, maybe hidden deep in a program options menu that has a double sub dialogue that they have altered 4 times since v 3.5 and is now also located under the MIDI menu/playback/Gargantuan Personal Pain Instruments/Contact Make Music..etc..etc. menu option, but hey! ikey could get me there in one keystroke ;-)) This never happened in 2005 and before. For years I hounded Make Music to make the mass mover selections 'savable'. Finally in v2006 they did that, but on pain of 2 dialogue boxes to get the same job done! This is a move backwards not forwards. Quite frankly, I have found 2006 a let down, it's slower, more clunky and has crashed more. I am still using 2005 for most of my work and for large projects it is a must even if just to save time. For all the money that we all have invested in all those upgrades over all those years you would think that by now they could have covered all corners and even built in their own user defined macros into the program like Word and other classic apps. do. There should be no need for ikeys or Quickeys. All they provide is a cop-out for the finale programmers. Rant over. Jonathan On 2 Jun 2006, at 19:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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