To break secondary beams

If you want, you can specify places to break secondary beams even though the primary (eighth note) beam continues.

1. From the Window menu, choose Advanced Tools. Click the Special Tools Tool  , and click the measure in question.
2. Click the Beam Break Tool  . A handle appears over every note grouped by a secondary beam.
3. Double-click the handle at the right end of the pair of notes whose beam you want to break. The Secondary Beam Break Selection dialog box appears, letting you specify exactly which beams you want to break. If you select Break Only, you can specify individual levels of beams to be broken; thus if you select Break Only 32nds, the sixteenth-note beam (and always the eighth note beam) will remain intact. If you select Break Through, however, Finale will break the beams of the note value you specify and all smaller values.
4. Select the desired Break options, and click OK (or press enter). To restore the beam grouping, click the handle you used to make modifications. When the dialog box appears, click Reset.

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