100% don't do this in Finale. 
Sort page numbers in Finale. Easiest to make L and R pages the same.  Print to 
PDF.  On mac you can open all the pdfs together, order them, then print to PDF 
with them all selected. 

Steve P. 

> On 12 Dec 2016, at 09:32, Jón Kristinn Cortez <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello John.
> 
> Instead of using Finale to combine the files, with all the troubles that can 
> cause, how about print the files to PDF, using numbers 011-200 in order you 
> want the songs to be, and then combine the PDFs into one file.
> Is there a reason you want to combine the Finale files?
> 
> Cortez
> 
> 
> 
>> On 10. des. 2016, at 01:29, John Witmer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Robert,
>> I need your advice. I'm in the process of completing a 200 song compendium 
>> using Finale 2014.5  When it is finished, (I promised it would be ready 
>> "early" in 2017), I'll need to merge the individual charts for a single 
>> document. This is for the sole use of a retirement community, but they'll 
>> need about 100 copies. I believe I have volunteers who will fund the 
>> printing, but I need to get good copy. 
>> 
>> Now, is Finale 25 good enough to undertake this task, or should I finish it 
>> with Finale 2014.5? Either way, I'm afraid it will be a real chore. If all 
>> else fails, I'll have to print 200 separate charts and collate them. This 
>> will be hard because I need to print most pages "back-to-back" to keep the 
>> total size less than an unabridged dictionary.
>> 
>> Your advice would be gratefully appreciated.
>> Chordially,
>> John Witmer
>> Clemson Downs Retirement Community.
>> 
>> On 12/9/2016 5:35:12 PM, Robert Patterson <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>> I've been messing with the Score Merger function in Finale 25. It does a
>> halfway decent job, but
>> 
>> 1. It fails to copy lyric baseline adjustments (and I would guess probably
>> expression baseline adjustments as well).
>> 2. It idiotically goes nuts if a bar has too many beats (like a hard whole
>> rest in a 2/4 bar, which is frequently required for L1/L2 parts).
>> 3. It makes a mess of lyric text.
>> 4. It doesn't know how to create percussion staves that match the source
>> file, so percussion is a mess.
>> 
>> Does anyone know a better way?
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