Resize Tool

This tool lets you reduce or enlarge a note, group of notes, staff, system, page, or all the music in a piece. When you use it at the note-by-note level, you can create cue notes; at the staff level, you can create a cue staff. However, you’ll probably use this tool most often to reduce the overall size of the music. It’s important that you choose Update Layout from the Edit menu after you reduce or enlarge a system, a page, or the entire piece so that Finale corrects any irregularities in measure widths introduced by the change.

When this tool is selected, Finale displays the Resize dialog box—where you can specify the amount of reduction or enlargement—any time you click a musical element (see Special mouse clicks, below). See Reducing/Enlarging for further instructions.

Click directly on a notehead to reduce or enlarge the notehead itself. (If the note is in Voice 2, shift-click.)
Click a note stem to reduce or enlarge the entire note, including the notehead, stem, flag, any other notes in the same chord, and - if the note you clicked was the first note of a beamed group - any other notes in the beamed group. (If the note is in Voice 2, shift-click.) Finale also reduces any expression markings, chord symbols, or lyric syllables attached to the note.
In Page View, click on a staff to reduce or enlarge the staff.
In Page View, click between two staves of a system to reduce or enlarge the entire system.
In Page View, click the upper-left corner of a page to reduce or enlarge that page, a range of pages beginning with the one you clicked, or all pages from the one you clicked through the last page of the file.

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

Menu item	What it does
Resize Page	Display the Resize Page dialog box
Resize System	Display the Resize Staff System dialog box
Resize Staff	Display the Resize Staff dialog box
Resize Note or Rest	Display the Resize Note dialog box
Resize Notehead	Display the Resize Notehead dialog box