Hiding Staves – Improved in Finale 2011
Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, change your mind whenever you want, and never lose a note.

Finale 2011 has made Staff Layout easy. If the oboe doesn't play on this page you can easily hide the oboe staff. If you change your mind and add some notes, the oboe staff automatically reappears. If you'd like to hide staves containing music, that's been simplified too; but you'll never hide music by accident.

Hiding Empty Staves

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Auto-Showing Music

Hiding Staves Containing Music

• Need parts for an instrument that you don't want to appear in the score? Simply hide staves in the score.
• Want an unseen playback effect? Hide a staff!
• On-screen feedback makes it clear when music is hidden and new contextual menus make it instantly accessible. Finale makes it easy and flexible.

Moving and Editing Staves – Improved in Finale 2011
Staff Layout capabilities make it simple and intuitive to hide, move, and edit staves, groups, and brackets. Work in any order you wish, change your mind whenever you want, and never lose a note.

Finale 2011 has made Staff Layout easy. We've taken the complexity out of moving staves, reordering staves, and working with staff and group names and brackets, while adding flexibility. Ease of use AND flexibility means freedom to go anywhere the music takes you.

Moving Staves

• Your music updates automatically as you drag and you receive on-screen feedback about the distance between the staves and what staves will be impacted.
• As you drag a staff handle up or down, all subsequent staves move too, retaining their relative positioning.
• No additional steps are required to move one staff in this system only or the whole score, or to move multiple staves in selected systems.
• Plus, when you add a new system it will now reflect the staff spacing of the previous system.

Reordering Staves

Live Dragging

Editing Groups and Brackets

• Groups automatically adjust their measure ranges when measures are added or removed.
• It's also easy to have full staff and group names appear anywhere in your score which is very helpful when you're starting a new movement in the same Finale file.

Document Styles
Create the look you want with personal Document Styles

Choose from a wide variety of styles or create your own to instantly personalize the appearance of new documents. Simply select a Document Style on the first screen of the Set-up Wizard to get the visual results you want, and save time.

Documents Styles control:

• text and music fonts
• text inserts
• all libraries (including expressions, articulations, document settings, etc…)
• graphics (a company logo, for example)
• page size and orientation
• page layout
• measure numbering and much more…

Create Your Own
It’s easy to create your own Document Styles. Just copy a completed Finale file (including notes) into the Document Styles folder and its settings become the basis for a new Document Style. Finale automatically knows what items pertain to the style, and which, like notes, do not. The next time you visit the Set-up Wizard you’ll be able to select your new Document Style.

Textured Paper
Choose from over a dozen different paper textures and colors so your on-screen page is easy on the eyes and aesthetically pleasing when entering notes or editing.

No texture

Textured paper sample in Finale

Importing Graphics
Add embedded or linked graphics to your score like pictures or a logo and easily re-size graphics that you’ve imported into your music. Embedded graphics allow you to easily transport your files to anyone.

Finale can import the following file formats: .TIFF .JPEG .PNG .EPS .BMP .GIF .PICT (Mac only)

Embedded Fonts in Macintosh EPS files

You can also export your score or a section of music as a graphics file to create textbooks, worksheets and quizzes.