To fill measures with rests
- Click the Selection Tool , and select the region
of music to fill with rests. Refer to Selecting music for different methods of selecting regions.
- From the Utilities menu, choose Check Notation,
then Fill With Rests. Finale scans each measure in the selected
region, and automatically fills incomplete measures by adding the correct
number of rests. Note that Finale does not convert empty measures to measures
with actual whole rests.