Erasing

You can erase any individual element of music from any specified region: lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, and so on, without removing any actual notes. If you want, you can also quickly erase all elements, including notes, from the desired region.

To erase everything from a selected region

1. Click the Selection Tool   and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
2. Press backspace (laptop users Fn-6) or select Clear All Items from the Edit Menu. Finale erases all music, leaving empty measures behind. (If you want to remove the measures too, select full measures and press the delete key. Pressing the Delete key without a full measure selection erases the music without deleting the measures themselves).

To erase a note, rest, or chord

1. Click the Simple Entry Tool  .
2. Click the Eraser Tool   , then click the note, rest or chord. The entire note, rest, or chord disappears, and the music that follows it slides to the left to fill the space.

To erase a note from a chord

1. Click the Speedy Entry Tool  . Click the measure in question.
2. Click the notehead you want to delete. You can also use the arrow keys to position the insertion bar and crossbar on the notehead.
3. Press backspace (laptop users Fn-6) or shift-delete. Alternative method: Click the Simple Entry Tool  , click the Eraser icon  , and click directly on the notehead to be erased.

To erase selected elements from a selected region

1. Click the Selection Tool   and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
2. Choose Clear Selected Items from the Edit Menu (or, right-click the region and choose Clear Items). The Clear Selected Items dialog box appears. See Clear Selected Items dialog box.
3. Check the items you would like to clear. Uncheck Entries if you would like to clear individual entry items.
4. Click OK (or press enter) twice. Finale erases the selected items. (You can undo this action by immediately choosing Undo from the Edit Menu.)