To place a basic repeat in your score
If you want to create a backwards repeat
bar that will return to the beginning of the score, do the following.
- Click the Repeat Tool and Control-click
the measure prior to the desired repeat barline and choose Create Backward
Repeat Bar. Or, click to select the measure and from the Repeat
menu, choose Create Backward Repeat bar. If a forward repeat bar does
not appear earlier in the score, Finale automatically jumps to the first
measure upon reaching this repeat barline during playback.
If you want to define a forward and backward
repeat barline at the same time, do the following:
- Click the Repeat Tool .
- Highlight the measures you would like to enclose
within repeat barlines. (If the section is too large to see at
once, click the first measure, and then hold down Shift and click the
last measure of the desired region).
- Control-click the highlighted region and select Create
Simple Repeat. Or, from the Repeat menu, choose Create Simple Repeat.
A forward and backward repeat barline appear on the first and last
measure of the region respectively. Also, this section will repeat accordingly
during playback.
There are several other options for creating
repeat barlines. You could also Control-click
the fist measure of a section you would like to repeat and choose Create
Forward Repeat and then Control-click the last measure of the
desired repeated section and choose Create Backward Repeat. Of course,
instead of using the contextual menus (Control-click), you can also click to
select a measure and choose the desired option from the Repeat menu. This
applies for all contextual measure selections described in this chapter.