On Apr 27, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Brennon C. Bortz wrote:
Mike,
I've been trying Command-/ and Command-\ (which both
seem to be a shortcut for "Show Multiple Pages") as
well as Command-D for Update Layout.
See, now I thought Command-D was to redraw the screen. What version
are you on? I have 2007, but I still mostly use 2004. Are these
commands that changed in the newer versions?
I'm not at that computer now, but I'll try what
you've suggested in an hour or so. I appreciate the
idea, but I'm afraid this isn't the problem either.
If there was an enourmous amount of space between
staves, wouldn't this give me even more pages than I
expect, instead of only one?
Possibly, but I've seen interesting things happen in that window with
interesting numbers -- always by accident, but interesting
nonetheless. Maybe there's a large negative number and Finale
doesn't know what to do with it either. I have very little
confidence that this is actually but the problem, but I feel like
I've had a similar problem before to what you're having now, and that
the solution was something really simple that I had overlooked for a
long time before realizing it.
As this is a composition that I have to have to
performers by Monday, I need to find a solution on
very short order. I have a huge number of
expressions to place and notes to place in the
score--you know how new music goes. I guess I could
do this in Scroll View and just wait to find a
solution, but I'm wondering if there's a better way
to go about this. What would happen if I just
copied everything into a blank document? I have no
libraries loaded that aren't already in my default
document. I do have a few custom shapes that I've
created, however. Is this all that I will lose?
Obviously, page formatting isn't an issue, as I
haven't been able to operate in Page View yet. Any
thoughts?
I really can't think of anything else, based on what you've said
you've done. Whenever I have problems with seeing things the way I
think I'm supposed to be seeing them, I always do a few things in the
same order:
1. In Mass Edit, select all and select "Apply Note Spacing". (Of
course, other people might choose different spacing options.)
2. Make sure (in Page View) that the first page of the document is
open/active and select "Update Layout." (which usually is Command-\)
3. Select Screen Redraw. (which usually is Command-D)
That usually takes care of all possible visual problems with Finale.
But I think you said you've done these things, so I for one am baffled.
If you'd like, feel free to attach the file to an e-mail and send it
to me off-list, and I can try a couple of things to see what might
work. I'm on my MacBook, though, which only has 2007 on it. (I
haven't done any of the updaters yet.)
-- Mike
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