That's always been the only method that I've ever known to accomplish what you wanted within Finale.
I think that it might be that if you do it a lot it becomes automatic -- I did realize that even though I don't do it a lot, explaining it took more time than actually doing it. David On 3/18/2013 11:43 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: > Thanks, Timothy and David, that did the trick - although it's certainly not > as intuitive as I remembered it, knowing what to change and when to change it > ... > Cheers! > Eric > ***************************************** > Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) > www.habsburgerverlag.de > webmas...@habsburgerverlag.de > ***************************************** > > On 18.03.2013, at 14:35, David H. Bailey wrote: > >> Timothy Price hinted at the solution -- you have to be sure to have >> "Show Active Layer Only" selected. >> >> That means that you have to switch back and forth between layer 1 >> (presumably where the Oboe 2 part was originally entered on its own >> staff) and layer 2 (where you want to past the Oboe 2 part onto the same >> staff with Oboe 1). >> >> When you do select "Show Active Layer Only" and have selected Layer 2 >> into which to paste the Oboe 2 part, the Oboe 1 part will seem to >> disappear. Once you've pasted the Oboe 2 part into layer 2 on the same >> staff as Oboe 1, then you need to turn off "Show Active Layer Only" so >> that you can see both layers at the same time. >> >> At that point you should see both the Oboe 1 and Oboe 2 parts on the >> same staff with stems up/stems down just as you want. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > > -- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
