Working with scores and parts 
It’s time to learn about Finale’s more
powerful score-oriented features. If you plan to work mainly on lead sheets,
you may just want to skim this section. But if you intend to create multi-staff
scores—particularly orchestral scores—you will want to go through this
whole tutorial. By the end of this tutorial, you should be able to create
from scratch a conductor’s score and parts.
If you have a document currently open,
close it.
- Open
the document called “Tutorial 5.” This document currently consists
of a single staff, filled with music.
- From
the View menu, select Scroll View. You may find that it is easier
to do all of your editing work in Scroll View (where the music is laid
out in a continuous horizontal band), especially when working with scores
that contain several staves.
- Click
the Staff Tool
.
- From
the Staff menu, choose New Staves. The New Staves dialog box appears,
asking how many staves you’d like to add, and how much distance you want
between them. The negative number in this box is the distance from the
top of one staff to the top of the next. Here, a positive number measures
upward; a negative number measures downward.
- Type
3 and click OK. Finale has added three evenly spaced staves, giving
you a total of four; let’s imagine that you’re going to create a string
quartet.
You can reposition a staff by grabbing its
handle and dragging it up or down. To remove a staff, click it and then
press Delete. To see more staves, select a smaller view
percentage from the View menu, Zoom submenu.
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