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To restore cross-staff notes to their source staff temporarily

At times, you may find your score easier to edit if all cross-staff notes are displayed on their original or “source” staves. With the following technique, you can tell Finale to restore them in this way temporarily; when you’re ready to print the score, you can tell Finale to display them once again on the “target” staves to which you dragged them.

  1. From the Document menu, choose Document Options then select Notes and Rests. The Rest options appear.
  2. Select Display Cross-Staff Notes in Original Staff (so that an X appears). Click OK (or press return). When you want the cross-staff notes to return to their target staves, de-select Display Cross-staff Notes in Original Staff.
  3. Optional: uncheck Display Reverse Stemming in the Stems portion of the Document Options to return note to the “correct” side of their stems.

 

 

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