I am sorry if I have offended anyone by this. I am certainly grateful for all the help and suggestions, and I try to express it. If my frustration got the better of me, then I apologise abjectly. It certainly was not intended as any kind of slight.
I do tend to get frustrated when I am doing what the manual says, but it isn't working... Sometimes I am sure it is user error, maybe I misread something or whatever. For some of this stuff, though, you have to admit it is a pain. All I needed to do was have a 'rall' measure followed by 'a tempo'. That should be simple and straight-forward, but... I have taken up a lot of you guys' time, and a heap of mine, and it still isn't quite right. I have spent probably 12 hours this weekend, just working on this one little problem. The book says "do this, and the program will do that", but obviously in this case, it just doesn't. The very fact that so many old-timers (sorry!) have developed work-arounds for it is pretty telling, don't you think? Anyway, I have some meetings I have to attend this evening, but tomorrow morning I will take another look at defining the tempo-changes. And yes, thank you all for your time and effort! Even the stuff which hasn't worked for me, I am trying to store it for future purposes. Phil. At 01:50 PM 4/8/2013, you wrote: >3) When busy people take time to try to help you, even if you are still >having trouble: show a _little bit_ of appreciation in your reply! That >will be your best assurance of getting more help. It is not our fault that >Finale can be frustrating! We did not design the program (which, even when >I curse it, I consider a gift from God that has improved my life >tremendously.) You are getting a lot more help than some of us got when we >started out (back when the program was WAY more confusing, I could add!). > FIRST, say 'thanks for your help," then tell us what worked better, what >didn't. It will make the next set of suggestions easier to type for those >who are trying to help you. > >I see that some later replies from you DO contain some appreciation, so I >may be out of line with that last paragraph. Without looking up your >earlier replies, I recalled some mis-directed frustration. If the shoe >doesn't fit, please toss it back. > >Raymond Horton >Bass Trombonist, Louisville Orchestra >Minister of Music, Edwardsville (IN) UMC >Composer, Arranger >VISIT US AT rayhortonmusic.com Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog its too dark to read. Groucho Marx _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
