To space existing staves evenly
- Click the Staff Tool
. The Staff menu
appears.
- Choose Respace Staves from the Staff menu.
The Respace Staves dialog box appears.
- Leave Keep Current Position selected if you
don’t want to move the top staff. To place the top staff a fixed
distance from the top of the screen, click to select Top Staff Position:
Set to, then enter the distance (in measurement units) into the Set to
text box. To reposition the top staff by a percentage of its current position,
click Top Staff Position: Scale to, then enter a percentage into the
Scale to text box. For example, to place the staff twice as far down,
enter 200 (%) in the text box.
- To maintain a fixed distance between the remaining
staves, click to select Distance Between Staves: Set to, and enter the
distance (in measurement units) into the Set to text box. To place
staves closer together or farther apart proportionally, click to select
Distance Between Staves: Scale to, then enter a percentage into the Scale
to text box. This will preserve the relative distance between each staff.
For example, if you created a larger-than-usual gap between the woodwind
staves and the strings, and you entered 50 (%) in the text box, Finale
would make extra space, but both the gap and the distances between staves
within the woodwind or string sections would be half as large.
- Click OK to confirm your changes.
