How to get there
From the Window menu, choose Advanced Tools
Palette.
What it does
This palette contains the MIDI Tool, Special
Tools Tool, Graphics Tool, Ossia Tool, Mirror Tool, Note Mover Tool, and
Tempo Tool.
- [Close
box]. Click this small button at the upper-right corner of the
palette to close the palette. Once it’s hidden, you make the palette reappear
by choosing Advanced Tool Palette from the Window Menu.
- [Title
bar]. Drag the strip across the top (or left) edge of the palette
to move the entire palette to a new screen location.
- [Sizable
frame]. Click on the very edge
of the palette and drag the sizable frame to reshape the entire palette. As you drag, the palette snaps into new configurations:
tall and thin, short and stout, square, and so on. If your monitor is
wider than it is tall, for example, you might consider rotating the palette
so that it’s a short horizontal strip.
If you drag the resize box inward toward the
upper-left corner, you hide tools. Drag the resize box outward again to
bring them back into view.
- [Tool
icons]. See the individual tool for a complete discussion of each
tool and what it does. In the meantime, note that you can rearrange the
icons within the palette. To do so, press shift and drag an icon into
a new position; it will trade places with the icon onto which you drop
it. Keep in mind, too, that you can save these configurations of tools
for quick access; see View
Menu for instructions. See the Customize
Toolbar dialog box.
Graphics
Tool
Use this tool to exchange
and bitmapped graphics between programs.
MIDI Tool
This tool lets you edit the actual MIDI
data that Finale stores with your music.
Mirror
Tool
With this tool you can create one-measure
intelligent copies, or mirrors - groups of notes that are dynamically
linked to other notes in the score (the source material).
Note
Mover Tool
This tool lets you move one note at a
time (or several within a measure) to another measure, even on a different
staff.
Ossia
Tool
Use this tool to create floating measures—one-bar
alternative passages that you can place anywhere in the score.
Special
Tools Tool
This tool lets you create a number of
special beaming, stemming, and note positioning changes in one measure
at a time.
Tempo Tool
The Tempo Tool lets you create or edit
a stream of data describing tiny, moment-by-moment tempo fluctuations
within the playback of your piece.