John Bell got it right - hold down just the Opt key to skip the
dialogue box. Once I got this, things got a LOT faster!
The dialogue box remembers your settings, which I REALLY like.
The only big loss of functionality with the new copy behaviour (for me
on Mac, dunno about PC) is that drag-and-drop between documents is now
disabled, and copy-paste between documents doesn't copy everything, so
you have to use Clip Files and INSERT them (not Replace Items from Clip
File) to copy certain items between documents.
And Carolyn Bremer, thank you for your answer about Clear Items, you
were right on the money. Of course now that I think of it, clearing
Entries WOULD clear the chords and lyrics anyway, so of course I can
only clear those things separately when Entries is UNchecked. There is
even a little yellow popup that tells me this when I mouse over the
Entries button, so I have no excuse.
Somebody at MakeMusic really got things right with this new copying
behaviour. I know I've said it before, but this ranks up there with
Staff Styles, Metatools, and Auto-placing expressions for helping
productivity.
Christopher
On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:28 AM, Brian Williams wrote:
Dear list,
I just started using Finale 2006 for "real" work and discovered a
disturbing
new loss of functionality. In the mass mover tool, whenever you select
a
region and attempt to copy it to other staves you are greeted in every
instance by an annoying dialog box that takes the place of the "Items
to
Copy" dialog in previous versions.
I frequently copy the same material to several staves and having to
click
through this dialog box is a very annoying extra step, especially
considering that the enter and return keys are on the opposite side of
my
PowerBook keyboard from the option key (which I hold down with the
shift key
to copy to another staff).
Is there any way to turn off this annoying new "feature" so that
opt-shift
clicking on a staff will copy the material with the previous "items to
copy"
settings like it did in previous versions without having to hit enter
or
return to dismiss this dialog every single time?
Brian
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