Craig, There are two ways into the Chord Suffix Selection dialog box. If you go the way you did, you only get the Cancel and Select buttons. Do this instead.
Create a chord on your score. Click the handle and hit Return (you used to be able to double click, but that doesn't work now for a couple of versions. One more thing to complain about.) At the top of the dialog box you probably have a radio button called Show Advanced. Click this. (If it says Hide Advanced, then don't do anything. Fortunately, Finale remembers the setting of this button even after a quit, so you don't have to press it every time.) At the bottom of the expanded dialog box, you have another radio button called Select. Click this and when the Chord Suffix Selection dialog box appears THIS TIME you have the Edit, Duplicate, Delete, Move Down and Move Up buttons showing. You can also shift-click to select a series of suffixes (to delete them all at once) or even command-click them to select of deselect discontiguous suffixes. In my opinion, it is ridiculous to have to go through this to get here. All those extra buttons SHOULD be there even if you type C:0 (C colon zero), as this is when you really need them. Please complain to Tech Support about this, as I have. Point out that this is the SAME dialog box with the SAME NAME only missing the five edit buttons, so you can't even search the manual for the real instructions. I'll look at your other emails and reply. The Chord Tool is steaming pile of doo-doo and has been for quite a while. It is the worst tool in Finale right now, including the Shape Designer (which is pretty harsh criticism, you'll have to admit!) Christopher On Sun Jun 22, at SundayJun 22 12:39 AM, Craig Parmerlee wrote: > According to > http://www.finalemusic.com/UserManuals/Finale2014Win/Finale.htm#Finale/Chord_Suffix_Selection.htm > > "The Chord Suffix Selection dialog box ... allows you to select, delete, > or edit any of the suffixes; it also provides an entrance to the Chord > Suffix Editor," > > None of this seems to be true, other than being able to select a chord > suffix. The only buttons I have are Select, Cancel, and Help. > > The document also says you can shift-click to select multiple suffixes, > and this doesn't work either. Of course if the only action you can take > is to select a suffix for insertion into the score, then it makes no > sense to be able to select multiple suffixes. > > The document also says there should be a duplicate button, which would > be most helpful. Too bad it doesn't exist. > > Does anybody else have these items that I am missing? I am running > windows 8.1 with F2014B. > > You get to the dialog by editing a score, selecting the chord tool, > manual input mode and enter a chord name like "A:0" (root followed by > colon zero). > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: [email protected]
