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Open

How to get there

From the File Menu, choose Open.

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 drop-down 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.

 

See Also

File Menu

 

 

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