Craig,

I'm afraid I haven't the slightest idea what you're talking about.

In Scroll View, you can use the hand grabber to put the leftmost barline anywhere you want, showing as much or as little of the staff names as you desire. And once you've put it where you want it, it stays there, no matter what else you do (that is, provided you don't move left or right with the hand grabber tool again). If you want to advance or retreat in Scroll View, on Mac, you can use cmd-page up and cmd-page down to do so. (I'm sure there's a similar shortcut for Windows.)

In Page View, obviously, provided the staff names fit on the page, and left edge of the page is visible, the staff names are always visible.

In Studio View, the Staff Names are never visible, but the Instrument Names are always visible (by design).

- Darcy
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On 04 Aug 2005, at 10:57 PM, Craig Parmerlee wrote:

OK, this is one that has bugged me no end for 10 years. But tonight it seems to be driving me crazy more than usual.

In scroll view, Finale displays the staff names to the left of the staff. But the spacing is such that most of the staff name disappears off the left of the screen. It makes no sense. Why display the name and then chop it off?

With the staff tool, you can drag the staff to the right, allowing the staff name to show. But here is the really annoying part: whenever you do just about anything, Finale resets the margin to its prior, useless setting. The only way you can use this is to memorize the order of your staves. That is not much fun when dealing with 20 or more staves. Tonight I am trying to copy between two scores and it is taking forever.

What in (%&^&$ were they thinking? It is as if somebody progeammed this intentionally as a means of torture.

If there is an option that controls this, I sure haven't found it.

I hope somebody can set me straight on this.
Thanks in advance.

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