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Open

How to get there

From the File menu, choose Open.

Or, choose the Graphics tool $image\Graphics_Tool.gif$ . From the Graphics menu, choose Export Current Page to open the Save JPEGs As dialog box). Or, click the score to open the Place Graphic dialog box (which are all similar in functionality).

Use this dialog box to open an existing Finale or MIDI file that you want to work on in Finale.

What it does

In this dialog box, you can specify what kind of file you want to save or open.

List Files of Type

Choose the file type you want to open or save from the popup list, or choose All Files to display all the files in the current directory regardless of file type. Choose Finale Notation File (.MUS) to display "regular" Finale files. Choose MIDI File to display Standard MIDI Files created in Finale or a sequencer program. Choose Finale Template File (.FTM) to display Finale files saved as templates. These files open as "Untitled," but contain all the custom score settings contained in the template file.

In the Place Graphic dialog box, choose TIFF File (.TIF), to display the files of the selected type in the scrolling list. Choose All Files to display files of all types in the scrolling list.