Sorry Linda--I missed your explanation of where these whole rests are
coming from.  The inadvertent entries I understand, but I haven't had any
trouble with Finale-generated whole rests.  Is it a feature you can turn
off?  Can you elaborate? - Don

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:30 PM, Don Hart <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Linda,
>
> In speedy or simple note entry one has to enter real whole rests on
> purpose, in lieu of the default whole rests that show in empty measures, so
> it's always seemed to me an efficient way to keep from hiding a staff.  If
> I recall correctly, that was also the method used to preserve staves when
> optimizing.
>
> I'm curious how these hard rests are getting in your scores--is it via
> importing midi or some such preliminary format?
>
> Best,
>
> Don
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Linda Worsley <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Optimize is now "hide empty measures" and it's found in the menu bar under
>> "staff" (with the staff tool in use) at the bottom of the list.  You muse
>> select the range of measures hyou want... um... optimized... and it will
>> hide the empty measures.  It won't hide any empty measures containing
>> "hard" whole rests, and sometimes I've had to go through and delete those
>> that have been put there either inadvertently or with some new "helpful"
>> feature of Fiknale.
>>
>> Finale just can't let well enough alone.  I have become more frustrated
>> with each new version... I've been using Finale since version zero point
>> zero in the eighties, and for awhile, each version made beautiful,
>> intuitive changes.  But not lately.  Finale 2014 for mac is a nightmare in
>> so many ways.  But it's still better than slogging through making
>> handwritten scores, so...
>>
>> Linda Worsley
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