Open the file in Scroll View and make sure that there is minimal space above the first staff. Select and drag all staves upwards in Staff Tool if you need to. With Page Layout, edit the system margins to remove extra space between staves.
>-----Original Message----- >From: finale-boun...@shsu.edu [mailto:finale-boun...@shsu.edu] >On Behalf Of Katherine Hoover >Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 4:22 PM >To: finalelist >Subject: [Finale] another simple (I hope!) question > > I generally print on legal paper, in order to >eventually have pieces done on 9 x 12 paper at the printer. >This means I have to work with systems rather freely at times. > At the moment I'm doing a piece for two pianos, and need to >get 3 systems on a page (3 groups of 4 >staves.) I cannot seem to move the second system at all, and >those some others will move and some will not. I took the >time to try various things under the page layout tool, but I >was not able to solve the problem. > > Again for some reason this was not a problem in my old >Finale program. Also the movement I just finished I was able >somehow to work with. But it is patently clear that I don't >really KNOW what works and what doesn't, and I'm wasting a lot >of time messing around. > > Any help would be MUCH appreciated. > > Thanks, > Katherine Hoover > >_______________________________________________ >Finale mailing list >Finale@shsu.edu >http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
