Katherine, By the time I read your original email you had already gotten answers from other readers. I'll just chime in to say that, although it was hard to break the "Mass Edit" habit, the Selection tool is a great, great improvement. I'm a PC user and not sure how things work with Mac, but for me it has become second nature to tap the Escape key a couple of times, which takes you from whatever you're doing into Selection mode, highlight an area, right click the mouse for a menu and choose an action. Aside from Speedy Entry, it's probably the most useful feature in Finale 2011.
You're going to have occasional problems opening old Finale files and working with them in the new version. Always save a copy of the original in case you have to abandon ship and start over. After you work with the old file for a while and are making satisfactory progress, save it and then continue. If it all goes south, you can ditch it and go back to the earlier version. If you really have trouble dealing with an older file, try converting to XML format and opening that in the new Finale. You'll lose a few things, but it should go much smoother. Steve Larsen _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
