Brennon,
Harold Owen has tutorials on a web site (if I remember correctly).
It seems like a good idea to contact him <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for
more information. It's useful to go through a tutorial, even if it
seems to be taking a lot of time in the process of doing it. It will
surely save time in the long run, and templates are definitely the
way to go. Even one basic template, from which others can be made,
can save a succession of seconds and minutes that turn into hours.
The FinaleTips site on Make Music's web site will provide useful
suggestions as well.
If you are like me, then you may believe that you are too slow to
benefit from timesaving methods, and that the time it takes to go
through procedures multiple times aids in the learning of a new
program. This may be true, for a short period, but the time saving
methods developed by others who have trod the path are the things to
use, once you've achieved basic familiarity. Everyone will tell you
that they depend on their templates to create an efficient working
environment.
Hope this helps.
Chuck
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:01 AM, Brennon C. Bortz wrote:
Hi All,
I've been lurking on the list for quite some time now, and have
been using
Finale for about 7 years. To this point, every Finale file I have
created
has been done in a different way. I've never had time to sit down and
create templates, etc. I know that in the long run, this could be
costing
me a lot of time. I'd like to ask if there is a standard, or most
efficient, order of "doing things" when creating a Finale file from
scratch.
I am always finding myself going back to reinvent the wheel every
time I
create and fine-tune each file. Has any type of checklist been
created for
this use?
I appreciate any help you all can give, and I respect your
collective wisdom
quite thoroughly.
Kindest regards,
Brennon Bortz
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