It's a feature not a bug! That is, they mean for it work that way, but by all means write it up:
Workarounds: 1 Change the staff lines with a staff style (which is what I did). 2 It may be possible to select the rest of the staff after the single bar and change it to the other instrument. I can't remember if I tried it. On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Randolph Peters <randolphpet...@shaw.ca>wrote: > I don't know if Robert Patterson got an answer to his question from last > April, but I've only now realized there is a bug in the change instrument > command. (Finale 2012b) > > If you choose 1 measure, the changes apply to the rest of the staff. If > you select 2 measures or more, the changes work on the selected passage. > > Can anyone else confirm this before I send in my report to MM? > > Thanks. > > -Randolph Peters > > On 2012-04-01, at 9:29 AM, Robert Patterson <rob...@robertgpatterson.com> > wrote: > > > Is there any way to edit the instrument-change map directly? I need to > > change the instrument for 1 bar on a bass drum part so that I can add a > > cue, but when I only select one bar it changes the part from there > forward > > rather than just for the selected bar. Normally, I could change back in > the > > next bar, but this is a file imported from an earlier version, so the > base > > instrument is "Unknown" which makes it impossible to select in the Change > > Instrument dialog. > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
