Clef Tool

• Double-click a measure to display the Change Clef dialog box, where you can specify a clef that you want to insert in the measure you clicked.
• Click a measure that contains a mid-measure clef to display a handle on every mid-measure clef.
• Drag a mid-measure clef handle left, or right to adjust the clef’s position. The notes before and after it are renotated accordingly after you drag it.
• Drag a mid-measure clef handle across the left barline to convert it to a regular clef change (where the clef appears to the left of the barline).
• Click a mid-measure clef handle to select it; press delete, or right-click the handle and select Delete from the contextual menu to remove it. You can also shift-click to select additional mid-measure clef handles or drag-enclose several.
• Double-click a mid-measure clef handle; on the second click, hold the mouse button down and drag the handle right or left to change the clef (from a bass clef to a treble clef, for example). As you drag the clef horizontally, it cycles through its eighteen available clefs.
• Ctrl-click a mid-measure clef handle, or right-click the handle and select Edit Clef Definition from the contextual menu to display the mid-measure Clef dialog box, where you can change the clef, specify its positioning, or turn it back into a single clef (one that appears just before the first barline of the measure and can’t be moved).
• Double-click a highlighted region of measures to open the Clef Selection dialog box where you can change the clef for all measures in the region.

You can create Clef Metatools—one-keystroke equivalents for a particular clef—which can be especially useful if you apply the same clef in multiple places in your document. Clef Metatools can be programmed to any letter or number.

To program a Clef Metatool

Click the Clef Tool  . Press shift and a number key or a letter. Finale displays the Clef Selection dialog box; choose the clef you want to correspond to the number or letter you pressed. Click OK (or press enter).

To use a Clef Metatool

Click the Clef Tool. Highlight a region of measures and press the desired clef metatool to apply the new clef to the highlighted region.

 

Or, while pressing the desired clef metatool key:

• Click before the first note of a piece to change the first clef displayed.
• Click before the first note of a measure to change the first clef for that measure and the remainder of the piece.
• Click between notes in a measure to set a mid-measure clef for the remainder of the measure and the remainder of the piece.

Contextual menus are reached by right-clicking on the handle of an object. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select various items.

 

Menu item	What it does
Edit Clef Definition	Display the Mid-Measure Clef dialog box
Delete	Delete selected mid-measure clef