When using Finale, beats are positioned according to nonlinear spacing—in other words, the positioning of beats in a measure that contains a half note and four eighth notes won’t be the same as in a measure with four eighths and a half note—even though the measures are the same width. See Document Options-Music Spacing for a more complete discussion.
Each measure has beat chart (when using Automatic Music Spacing), providing handles that you can drag horizontally to reposition the beats in a measure. Moving a beat is not the same as moving a note—when you move a beat, the note that falls on that beat in every staff moves at once.
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