To optimize all (or specified) systems

1. Click the Page Layout Tool  .
2. From the Page Layout menu, choose Optimize Staff Systems. A dialog box appears, letting you specify the range of systems to be optimized. If you only want to optimize some of the systems, enter their numbers in the boxes. You could also drag-select the systems to optimize before entering the Optimize Staff Systems dialog box, and Finale will display your selected systems. To optimize the entire score, click on Whole Document.
3. Check Optimize Staff Systems and any additional features below. See Staff System Optimization dialog box for details.
4. Click OK (or press enter). When Finale’s done, look at the staves in Page View. You’ll see that every staff remaining in each system has music on it, because the empty staves have been hidden.
5. Update the layout using Update Layout in the Edit menu. Finale has locked in the optimized staff configuration. If you return to Scroll View and add some music to a staff in a system that no longer appears in Page View (because it’s been optimized), the staff won’t reappear. If you want to edit, reformat, enlarge, or reduce your music, remove optimization before you do it, and reapply optimization when you’re finished. For this reason, it’s best to optimize just before printing, after the piece has been formatted, proofread, and given its final layout.

Page d'accueil du manuel