Utilities/Rebeam submenu

Finale beams eighth notes (and smaller values) automatically, according to the time signature. Using the Rebeam commands, however, you can change the beaming patterns for notes you’ve already added to the score.

• Rebeam Music. Choose this command to restore beaming to the patterns dictated by the time signature; you’d use this command after either manually changing the beaming or changing the time signature for measures that already contain notes (because Finale doesn't rebeam notes automatically when you change the time signature).
• Rebeam to Time Signature. Choose this command to display the Rebeam to Time Signature dialog box, where (by changing the “beaming signature”) you can specify any beaming pattern, even if it’s unrelated to the time signature.
• Rebeam to Lyrics. Choose this command to display the Rebeam to Lyrics dialog box, where you can specify the lyrics you want rebeamed. Beaming to lyrics is a convention used in opera or art song notation. In this scheme, eighth, sixteenth, and shorter notes are never beamed together in the vocal line except when a syllable is sustained through more than one note (melisma).