[Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Eric Fiedler
FinMac 2012c This is embarrassing, as I used to do this all the time and it used to be easy - but I haven't done it for a while. I have two oboe parts and want to paste them into one staff, ob1 into layer 1 with stems up, ob2 into layer 2 with stems down. But what I'm pasting keeps replacing

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread timothy price
Assuming that you have active layer only on, I have no idea. On Mar 18, 2013, at 8:08 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: FinMac 2012c This is embarrassing, as I used to do this all the time and it used to be easy - but I haven't done it for a while. I have two oboe parts and want to paste them into

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread David H. Bailey
On 3/18/2013 8:08 AM, Eric Fiedler wrote: FinMac 2012c This is embarrassing, as I used to do this all the time and it used to be easy - but I haven't done it for a while. I have two oboe parts and want to paste them into one staff, ob1 into layer 1 with stems up, ob2 into layer 2 with stems

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Richard Huggins
Although there is some evidence that Finale is worth considering as a simulator for Alzheimer's. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 18, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Eric Fiedler eric.f.fied...@t-online.de wrote: FinMac 2012c This is embarrassing, as I used to do this all the time and it used to be easy -

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Eric Fiedler
On 18.03.2013, at 14:47, Richard Huggins wrote: Although there is some evidence that Finale is worth considering as a simulator for Alzheimer's. Simulator or stimulator? ;-) Eric ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Eric Fiedler
Thanks, Timothy and David, that did the trick - although it's certainly not as intuitive as I remembered it, knowing what to change and when to change it ... Cheers! Eric * Habsburger Verlag Frankfurt (Dr. Fiedler) www.habsburgerverlag.de

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread David H. Bailey
That's always been the only method that I've ever known to accomplish what you wanted within Finale. I think that it might be that if you do it a lot it becomes automatic -- I did realize that even though I don't do it a lot, explaining it took more time than actually doing it. David On

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, March 18, 2013 1:36 pm, David H. Bailey wrote: I think that it might be that if you do it a lot it becomes automatic -- I did realize that even though I don't do it a lot, explaining it took more time than actually doing it. Interesting. It occurs to me that remembering something as

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Jari Williamsson
On 2013-03-18 18:36, David H. Bailey wrote: That's always been the only method that I've ever known to accomplish what you wanted within Finale. If the staves are adjacent: 1. Select both staves 2. JW Staff Polyphony 3. Staves-Merge to Layers Works just as fast for 3 and 4 staves as well.

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread David H. Bailey
On 3/18/2013 1:40 PM, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: On Mon, March 18, 2013 1:36 pm, David H. Bailey wrote: I think that it might be that if you do it a lot it becomes automatic -- I did realize that even though I don't do it a lot, explaining it took more time than actually doing it.

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Phil Daley
At 3/18/2013 02:40 PM, David H. Bailey wrote: It's interesting that you consider Finale more intuitive now -- I'm working with it less and less and I find Finale2012 to be very unintuitive to me. That's a good part of why I'm working with it less and less. I will be honest and admit that

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Richard Huggins
Many of you long-time users will amend the good old days of CompuServe and the group that there. I believe it was about the time I was starting to use finale. that was when I discovered that using finale dependended on having resources such as veteran users who could explain how to do, given

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Chuck Israels
I am a user from v 1.0 and have gone through every change. I work with Finale almost every day (maybe that's part of the issue) and find that I get used to the changes quickly. And that they have provided working improvements for me in all the ways that occur to me at the moment, with the

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Dennis Bathory-Kitsz
On Mon, March 18, 2013 3:30 pm, Chuck Israels wrote: I am a user from v 1.0 and have gone through every change. I work with Finale almost every day (maybe that's part of the issue) and find that I get used to the changes quickly. As a user since version 2.2 for Windows (1993 -- my 20th

Re: [Finale] copying to layers

2013-03-18 Thread Richard Warnock
I remember a problem like this. I think the solution was to Select Show Active Layer Only. Richard On Mon, Mar 18, 2013 at 5:08 AM, Eric Fiedler eric.f.fied...@t-online.dewrote: FinMac 2012c This is embarrassing, as I used to do this all the time and it used to be easy - but I haven't done