Hi Robert, I wasn't able to find instructions for doing this on a system-by-system basis in the documentation. Do you remember what you searched for?
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On 3 Oct 2012, at 7:07 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> wrote: > There's a way to do it (in page view), but it is a bit confusing, and I > always have to look it up in the doc pages. > > On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Darcy James Argue <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm hoping someone has figured out an efficient way of dealing with group >> names in recent versions of Finale (2011 and 2012). >> >> For instance, if I want to customize the positioning of a group name on a >> single system, in the middle of the score -- let's say from mm.250-255 of a >> 500-measure score -- the only way I can see to do that is: >> >> 1) Edit the group attributes and switch from "All Measures" to Measures 1 >> to 249. >> >> 2) Add a new group, from measures 250-255, re-enter the abbreviated staff >> name, click the "Position" checkbox, and enter the desired custom >> positioning. >> >> 3) Add a *third* group, from measures 256 to 500, that has the same >> abbreviated staff name and positioning as the first group. >> >> This procedure gets *really* tiresome very quickly, especially if you need >> a lot of custom group name positioning. >> >> Isn't there some way to move a group name on a single system only, without >> affecting the rest of the score? This used to be quite simple in earlier >> versions of Finale, before they got rid of the "Optimize" feature. >> >> Cheers, >> >> - DJA >> ----- >> WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Finale mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale >> > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
