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When you create parts, Finale groups all empty measures into multimeasure rests. You can now break one or more multimeasure rests into separate measures. For example, you might prefer that measures are written out if less than four consecutive measures are empty, or you might want to break a single multimeasure rest into two or more rests.

To break a multimeasure rest

  1. Choose the Selection Toolimage\Selection_Tool.gif
  2. Select the multimeasure rest to break. To break more than one multimeasure rest, select a region that contains the rests. (Remember that you must be in Page View to do this.)
  3. Choose Edit > Multimeasure Rests > Break, or right-click on the multimeasure rest and choose Multimeasure RestsRemove. Finale breaks the multimeasure rests in the selected region into separate measures of rests.
  4. Choose Utilities > Update Layout to ensure that Finale is displaying the current layout of the score.

 

 

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