On 11 Feb 2007 at 20:05, Christopher Smith wrote:

> On Feb 11, 2007, at 7:46 PM, David W. Fenton wrote:
> 
> > On 12 Feb 2007 at 0:12, George Galway wrote:
> >
> >> This situation has happened to me also. I got round it by adding a 
> >> new set of staves and copying the parts. When you have copied the 
> >> parts to their new positions copy the new parts back to their
> >> original staves and delete the surplus staves.
> >
> > Why do you need to do this? Just copy from the current location to
> > the new location. You do have to add the Ctrl key to the click on
> > the destination for copying (on Windows, of course), and
> > occasionally for some reason Finale decides to ignore it and not
> > copy, but I've found that usually closing Finale and re-opening
> > makes it respond to the command again.
> >
> > I've never found it necessary to use scratch staves for copying
> > horiziontally within the same staff -- I only use it when composing
> > and needing to, say, exchange voices (where copying would destroy
> > material that you want to keep).
> 
> Overlapping the source and target measures used to erase the  
> articulations in only the overlapped area. So I do this by copy/paste 
> or with scratch staves, as suggested.

In which versions of Finale was that but present? I'm on an old 
version (WinFin2K3), and have never experienced any such problem.

And was it fixed in later versions?

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