Hi Dennis, Are you sure you are not accidentally unlocking the systems? With the selection tool selected, the shortcut to unlock systems is "U." If you are in the selection tool, and pressing the "U" key slightly before the "ctrl" key, you may be inadvertently triggering an unwanted system unlock.
Cheers, - DJA ----- WEB: http://www.secretsocietymusic.org On Nov 29, 2012, at 4:04 PM, dc <[email protected]> wrote: > I think this is the first time this has ever happened to me! > > Finale 2008. I just finished a piece with two linked violin parts (and a > continuo part). The V1 part is on one page with 7 staves only. Once it > was layed out correctly, I locked all the systems. And then hit Ctrl U > to update the layout. This UNLOCK one of the staves, leaves only two > bars on that stave, and adds an extra system on the next page. I tried > several times, with the same result. > > The V2 part does exactly the same thing when I lock all the staves and > update the layout. > > The solution would be to not update the layout. But even then, when I > switch from the part view to the score view and back to the part view, > the layout has been messed up, despite the system locks. > > I did a "file maintenance", and Finale found nothing wrong. > > Any ideas on what's going on? > > Thanks, > > Dennis > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
