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Using this tool, you can create and edit repeat signs and text repeats (such as D.S. al Coda) in your score. These repeats can be defined for playback, if you wish, so that Finale, playing back your score, responds to them just as a musician would.

Use this tool to create first and second endings, functional Coda and D.S. symbols, and even endless repeats.

 

 

You can create Repeat Metatools—one-key equivalents for repeat signs—that can save you time if you need to insert many repeat signs into your score.

To program a Repeat Metatool

Click the Repeat tool. Press shift and a letter or number key. Finale displays the Repeat Selection dialog box; double-click the repeat barline or the text repeat you want to correspond to the letter or number you pressed (or, if the text repeat you want doesn’t appear in the list, click Create and design it at this point). Click Select.

 

To use a Repeat Metatool

Click the Repeat tool. While pressing the letter or number key corresponding to the Metatool you programmed, click a measure. If the Metatool was programmed to insert a repeat barline, Finale displays the Backward Repeat Bar Assignment dialog box, where you can specify the playback effects of the barline (unless it was the purely graphic Forward Repeat barline). If the Metatool was programmed to insert a text repeat, Finale displays the Text Repeat Assignment dialog box, where you can specify the playback effects of the text repeat.

 

Contextual menus are reached by right-clicking on a measure or the handle of an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items. Some context commands, such as Create Simple Repeat requires a measure selection. See Selecting music.

 

Measure selection contextual menu for repeats

Menu item

What it does

Create Simple Repeat

Encloses selected measures with repeat barlines

Create First and Second Ending

Adds a first ending on selected measure(s) and a second ending on the measure following the selection

Create Ending

Opens the Create Ending dialog box where you can define a repeat ending on the highlighted measures

Create Forward Repeat Bar

Creates a forward repeat bar

Create Backward Repeat Bar

Creates a backward repeat bar

Align Brackets

Aligns brackets for all endings in selected region vertically

Reset Bracket Position

Resets ending brackets to default positioning for endings in the selected region

Delete

Deletes all repeat barlines, endings, and text repeats in selected region

 

Backward repeat barline handles

Menu item

What it does

Edit Repeat Assignment

Displays the Backward Repeat Assignment dialog box or the Ending Repeat Bar Assignment dialog box

Allow Individual Edits per Staff

Allows you to adjust the positioning of ending brackets on each staff of the system individually.

Align Brackets

Aligns the first and second (and other selected) ending brackets vertically

Reset Bracket Position

Resets ending brackets to default positioning.

Show

Check this option to show, or uncheck to hide (on the printed page)

Relink to Score (parts only)

Restore the link to its corresponding score item

Unlink In All Parts (score only)

Break the link between the score and this item in all parts

Relink In All Parts (score only)

Restore the link to all corresponding items in parts

Delete

Removes selected repeat

 

Text Repeat handles

Menu item

What it does

Edit Repeat Assignment

Display the Text Repeat Assignment dialog box

Edit Ending (available when context-clicking an ending bracket)

Displays the Edit Ending dialog box where the ending number and playback effects can be edited

Edit Repeat Definition

Display the Repeat Designer dialog box

Allow Individual Edits per Staff

Allows you to adjust the positioning of text repeats individually (for text repeats assigned to more than one staff).

Show

Check this option to show, or uncheck to hide (on the printed page)

Relink to Score (parts only)

Restore the link to its corresponding score item

Unlink In All Parts (score only)

Break the link between the score and this item in all parts

Relink In All Parts (score only)

Restore the link to all corresponding items in parts

Delete

Removes selected repeat

 

For further information, see the Repeat Selection dialog box.

 

See Also:

Repeats (barlines and text indications)

Document Options-Repeats

Main Tool Palette

 

 

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