Utilities/Music Spacing submenu

These commands, which affect full-measure selections, are unique to Finale. They let you use linear spacing for the notes, or you can space the notes and measures of your score the same way a professional engraver does - by consulting a table of width values for each note, and spacing the notes and measures accordingly. The result is non-proportional spacing, where a whole note isn't allotted four times as much width as a quarter note - it's actually allotted much less space.

Keep in mind that you can use any of these three music-spacing methods on any measures in your score, mixing and matching as necessary. You can also experiment with a certain selected region, trying first one kind of music spacing and then another; only the most recently-applied spacing will remain.

• Apply Beat Spacing. Choose this command to space each beat non-linearly first, then space notes within the beat linearly.
  
  
• Apply Note Spacing. Choose this command to space each note non-linearly.
  
  
• Apply Time Signature Spacing. Choose this command to space each note linearly (where an eighth note gets exactly half as much space as a quarter note, and so on). Because Time Signature Spacing is linear, the Avoid Collision options in Document Options - Music Spacing are ignored.
  
  
• Apply Music Spacing to Selected Parts/Score. Choose this command to display the Apply Music Spacing dialog box, where you can choose the parts/score to which you would like music spacing applied.