3/17/09 8:13 AM, "Robert Patterson" <[email protected]> wrote: > After using Fin2008 I now believe that the staff list mess was not the > result of people "not knowing how to use their colours" but rather of > Finale programmers not knowing how to modify Finale. 2008 introduced a > horrible bug in copy/paste that caused staff lists to multiply like > maggots in a carcass. (If you plan on using Fin2008 I strongly recommend > using my Mass Copy plugin for copying expressions.)
Robert, Your Mass Copy is the only way to copy "This Staff Only" items. It is an essential tool when working in 2008. The biggest problem I'm finding with Mass Copy is that it does not always copy certain "This Staff Only" items properly in 2008. Try creating a flat or sharp symbol as an expression and attach it as a "This Staff Only" item. Now highlight the measure and set Mass Copy to copy this element. Try pasting on staves below the highlighted staff. Sometimes it will copy and other times it will not. If you put 2 sharps made from the same element and try to copy them to a staff below in the same measure it seems random as to what copies but most of the time it will copy only 1 sharp but sometimes nothing will copy. This is not a rant on Mass Copy, just a bug I've found with it in 2008. I rely on Mass Copy to take over the tedious process of lining things up and doing "smart copying" which it does well. I just love being able to set a group of measures' hairpins and apply that same setting to the other staves by just copying the settings to the hairpins and to only the measures that have similar hairpins. It's close to being the biggest tool in the tool box. Thanks, Steve _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
