It sounds to me like Automatic Music Spacing is off. You didn't say if you were using Simple or Speedy entry, so I can't really help.
However, in the Selection Tool, select All and hit 4 to apply music spacing to everything. That always works. Christopher On Sun May 26, at SundayMay 26 10:39 AM, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 5/26/2013 10:28 AM, Katherine Hoover wrote: >> For years I have been inputting with my right hand on a keyboard and my left >> hand on the computer giving the note length (quarter, eighth etc.) The >> program would automatically format the bars as soon as I finished. In 2011 >> it will often NOT do this formatting, and I've tried numerous ways of >> prompting it - but this is ridiculous. I even looked it up and found no >> answer. Help, anyone? >> >> Thanks, Katherine >> > > You may have turned off the check for extra notes option in the Speedy > Entry or Simple Entry menu. With that turned off you can put as many > notes as you wish in any measure and the program won't automatically > advance. In that case you need to hit the ] key to move to the next > measure (if I recall correctly). > > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > http://www.davidbaileymusicstudio.com > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
