Optimize is now "hide empty measures" and it's found in the menu bar under "staff" (with the staff tool in use) at the bottom of the list. You muse select the range of measures hyou want... um... optimized... and it will hide the empty measures. It won't hide any empty measures containing "hard" whole rests, and sometimes I've had to go through and delete those that have been put there either inadvertently or with some new "helpful" feature of Fiknale.
Finale just can't let well enough alone. I have become more frustrated with each new version... I've been using Finale since version zero point zero in the eighties, and for awhile, each version made beautiful, intuitive changes. But not lately. Finale 2014 for mac is a nightmare in so many ways. But it's still better than slogging through making handwritten scores, so... Linda Worsley _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu https://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale To unsubscribe from finale send a message to: finale-unsubscr...@shsu.edu