There is a way to do what you want, it's just that Finale programmers haven't figured out how to do it. :-(
My bet is the first notation software which does that (Sibelius, Finale or the newly developping Notion software from http://www.notionmusic.com which may give these two giants a run for their money) first will eventually be the last engraving software standing. It will be such a huge time-saver that everybody using anything else will jump ship and begin using that program.
Sadly, not at all the case. Composer's Mosaic did exactly this, automatically and instantaneously, from the very beginning. The key may have been that score and parts are all part of the same file.
The downside, of course, is that a mistake entered in EITHER score or parts is instantly transferred to the other, so checking the score for an error in the parts is a waste of time.
But MotU seem no longer to be supporting Mosaic, despite this ability. My son-in-law was smart enough to get it operable for me in OSX Classic, so I can (for the moment) still access hundreds of my scores, but soon I'll inevitably lose them. Dennis' fear of losing access to Finale is NOT paranoid!
john
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