At 18:26 +0000 16/07/2002, Weldon Whipple wrote:
>I have never figured out how to respond to the "There are too many beats
>in this measure" dialog. I used to try to figure it out by choosing
>different responses whenever I entered too many notes, but I always chose
>the wrong button to click.
The wording of the four options may not be immediately clear, but
it's hard to think of something better. You have to remember that you
can also come across the dialog when the last thing you did was not
entering a note: if you're in Speedy and click on a measure that
already has too many beats in it (because someone else entered the
music, because you did a change of time signature without
rebarring...). In these cases referring to "the last note I entered"
makes no sense. Here's how to use the existing choices to accomplish
the things you wish to do:
>1. Truncate the length of the last note I entered, so that it "fills up"
>the measure.
To do this, choose the second option ("Delete the extra notes").
>2. Don't add the last note I entered at all. (Cancel that last request). I
>will re-add the note.
As I already said, when the dialog pops up you have not necessarily
just entered a note: in these cases Finale doesn't know which note
you want to remove. If you did just enter a note, Enter + Undo will
accomplish what you want.
>3. Make the "too-long" note spill into the next measure by adding two
>shorter notes (one at the end of the first measure, the other at the
>beginning of the second, connected with a tie).
For this you need either the third or fourth option. If there is no
music in the subsequent measures (you started with an empty staff and
you're entering the notes from left to right), it won't make any
difference which of these two options you choose. If there is music
in the subsequent measures, you need to decide if you want the
"spilled over" note to push all the music to the right (fourth
option) or if it should just go in front of the music in the next
measure, even if this means that this measure now has too many beats
itself (third option).
>4. Really add the note.
Choose the first option ("Leave the measure alone")
Best wishes,
Michael Cook
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