If you are on 2012, it is dead easy. Click the first measure where you want the new instrument to appear, or else select a range of measures, then select Change Instrument from the menu. Playback and the score staff name will be correct too, if you started with the Setup Wizard.
There are really only two issues. One is between flute and piccolo or clar and bass clar, you won't be able to tell at a glance in which measure the instrument/transposition change happens. For oboe and english horn, you will see the key sig change. So I would mark it with a text expression immediately. Also be aware that instrument changes do not copy and paste like Staff Styles did, so you can easily copy music from one staff to another with no worries, and if you are copying a previous passage in the same staff, you have to make sure it's on the same instrument. The other issue is if you are using chromatic transposition, or non- standard instruments like horn in E, F, G, A etc. all in the same staff. That answer is a little longer. If you are 2011 or previous, use the staff styles. Assigning them to metatools would be easiest. Watch when you copy between staves that you DON'T copy the staff styles! Also watch that you don't hit the staff style metatool by accident. I used to have entire scores as Bass Clarinet because 4 was my metatool for that staff style, and I hit 4 when I was in the Staff Tool instead of the Selection Tool, intending to invoke Music Spacing. Yikes! Christopher On 21-May-12, at 21-May-12 2:55 PM, Neal Gittleman wrote: > Greetings… > > Soon I'll be embarking on a Finale project that will involve > several doubling parts (Flute/Piccolo, Oboe/English Horn, Clarinet/ > Bass Clarinet). I'd appreciate any suggestions people have about > most efficient procedures of how to do this. Playback is not an > essential element, though it would certainly make proofreading easier… > > Thanks… > > Neal Gittleman > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
