Others have told you how to widen a measure manually. Unfortunately, this method doesn’t survive a music respace. What I generally do is put rests in the measure in Layer 1, which affect the music spacing. Depending on how much space I need, I enter quarter rests, eight rests, or sixteenth rests. You get good at estimating how much space you need.
You may be tempted to turn on “chords” as something to avoid collisions with in Music Spacing. Do not do this, as Finale does not know whether you actually HAVE a chord symbol on the next note, and avoids it anyway. This means that if you put a chord symbol over a running eighth note line, Finale will open an ENORMOUS amount of space on the first eighth note with a chord, when you don’t actually need it. Finale should know when there’s a chord, like it knows with lyrics. It sounded like you had a second question about the quickest way to enter chords. I use “type into score”. Click on the first note, hit E, then lower case b, then 7, and get Eb7. Sh-3 is a sharp. Spacebar moves to the next note. If you need a complex chord symbol that you don’t know how to type (but you know you have it in your chord library) hit Eb: (colon) then zero (0) and spacebar, which makes the chord selection dialogue box open up. Choose your suffix from there. For the next time you need that suffix, take note of the suffix slot number, and type that number in instead of zero. Christopher > On Jun 27, 2016, at 6:07 AM, Martin Nickless <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there hope I may get some help on this one > When entering changes on say a guitar part or piano when the changes clash > and don't fit the bar > How do you widen the bar so all changes fit ? > I clicked on all staff analysis with no luck > I keep getting unknown chord suffix box > The one that reads I'll do it let finale do it cancel > Would be great to have a quick easy way to enter changes > Thanks I'm on finale 2012 using Windows 10 > Best > Martin > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > 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]
