on 9/17/04 7:37 PM, Harold Owen at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> on 9/17/04 6:49 PM, Bill Spencer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Hi there: For reasons I won't bore you with, I have one line of a >>> multi-line >>> score where everything is shifted to the left by two quarter-notes. Is >>> there >>> a way to insert those two quarters at the very beginning and realign it >>> all? >>> The help stuff doesn't offer much of any help. I am poor and cheap enough >>> to >>> be using FinMac2000c on OS9.1, FYI. >> >> This could be done using Mass Mover and Select Partial measures. Highlight >> the affected area you want to move, and then option-click 2 beats earlier. >> I've done similar edits as this all the time. Note, the selected area's last >> 2 beats will be in need of edit. >> > > They way I do it is to insert rests (or notes) then when the "too > much music" dialog comes up, I choose "Keep moving...." It's quick > and easy.
Ya know, Hal is right. But I've tried this as well, and while it does work, and it is quick and easy, I've had files that something had gone very wrong further on down in the measures that cost me countless hours of editing since I didn't notice it until much later. It could have been operator error, but I could never track it. And this hasn't been an isolated incident with only one file. That option is the 'too many beats' dialog box makes me nervous. That being said, the same could happen even when you use my suggestion. Be careful out there. BTW, speaking of the 'too many beats' dialog box, how many other users out there truly miss the Cancel button in this dialog. I curse Finale virtually every day on this one. *************************** J.D. Thomas ThomaStudios West Linn OR http://www.thomastudios.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] *************************** For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism. _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
