Hi Linda, First of all, are you actually EXTRACTING the parts, or using the linked parts? Unless there is some compelling reason (and there are a couple) try to use linked parts as much as possible. That way, you can make edits to the score and have them show up in all parts at the same time, and you can even make certain edits in the part and have them happen in the score too (or not, depending on your preference and what kind of edit.)
Generally, the rule is if a staff has a Full name, it will NOT be preserved in its group when you generate the parts. This is good for keeping piano parts, organ parts, etc. grouped and NOT grouping sections together into the same part, but not so good for choir parts. You would have to re-create the group in the part with the Staff Tool by selecting All, once you have added all the staves you want to the part, in the correct order using Document>MAnage Parts>Edit Part Definition. Or, another way to fool Finale into preserving a group is to change all the choral staves so that the FULL name is blank, then generate the parts. Watch out, because if you have already formatted other parts, this will erase the formatting you have already done. You can then go back and put the full names back to Soprano, Alto, etc. There are settings to automatically create multimeasure rests, but for me I prefer to do it all at once before I start to format parts. In the Edit menu, at the bottom, Multimeasure Rests... Create for Parts/Score and select all. Hit Okay and you're done. If you need to mess around with them later for individual parts, you can create them all at once by selecting the passage, or All, and choosing Break, then choose a range and go to the menu again, this time choosing just Create. You should not have to mess around with numbers and crap. Christopher On Wed Dec 18, at WednesdayDec 18 11:32 AM, Linda Worsley wrote: > This is my first experience with extracting orchestra ports in 2012. > I extracted parts successfully (more or less… they were a mess) for > individual instruments, but now I'm trying to extract a whole set of > vocal parts--about eight staves, and not all are grouped as one big > part. Also, the method and results are so different that I'm > completely thrown about how to "gang" emptyh measures with a number > over them. In the individual parts it didn't work automatically and I > had to create the numbers over the long empty stretches and do a lot > of nonsense that used to be automatic in 2010. > > Because I have low vision, it's difficult for me to get answers from > the usual online "manual" of help objects. I can read email, but the > vast and arcane format of the help pages are more daunting than i have > time or patience for… > > Is there a simple way to do this? Or am I going to have to create a > whole new file just for the vocal parts? > > sigh… thanks for any clues! > > Linda Worsley > > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
