Thank you Aaron ... it did clear up some perspectives. I'm still not
sure how to print only the score pages I want ... I'll mess around
some more with this today. At this moment, it seems to me that once
the parts are linked (generated, what ever), that the option of
printing single pages of score or parts has been removed. I'm sure
this can't be the case, and that I, as of yet, have not figured it
out ... but I'll reread your post and the manual again. Perhaps the
light will dawn.
Thanks,
Dean
On Aug 25, 2006, at 8:21 PM, Aaron Sherber wrote:
At 10:15 PM 8/25/2006, Dean M. Estabrook wrote:
>So, I'm operating MacFin2007, and trying to extract parts from a file
>created on the 06 version. According to the Quick Start Video, all I
>have to do is go to Manage Parts, and click on a Link Parts
>button. However, that video obviously shows the Win format, not
>Mac .. and there is no such button I can find.
Try Document | Manage Parts | Generate Parts | OK.
>So, I sort of fumbled
>around and extracted the parts anyway ... I'm not sure if they were
>linked or not,
If you actually *extracted* parts (File | Extract Parts), then no,
they're not linked.
>Also, once I edited the parts, I had trouble
>finding them again, like there is now no separate folder for them,
>they just exist as part of the score,
Well, yes, that's sort of the whole point of linked parts. Once you
generate the linked parts, everything is contained in the same file
-- the parts are essentially just specialized views of the data in
the score. You access the parts by going to Document | Edit Score
or Edit Part.
>and when I did find one and got
>it open to do some more editing, all the changes I had made were no
>longer there.
In addition to linked parts, Fin07 also lets you extract parts to
separate (unlinked) files, just as in the past. The way it does
this is by generating linked parts and then saving the linked part
to an (unlinked) file. It sounds like you extracted parts to
separate files and then either (a) made changes to the linked parts
but later opened the extracted part, or (b) made changes to an
extracted part and later looked at the linked part.
To repeat: Once you extract a part to a separate file, the contents
of that file are no longer linked back to the score. The linked
parts all reside in the same file as the score and need only to be
generated, not extracted. (For files created in Fin07, the parts
can be generated right when you set up your score using the wizard,
so it's not an extra step the way it is with files brought in from
earlier versions.)
Hope this helps.
Aaron.
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