Hiding key signatures

It’s standard practice to display the key signature at the beginning of each system. You can, however, tell Finale not to display the key signature in a particular measure (in which the key signature would normally appear).

To hide the key signature in a measure

1. Click the Measure tool  , and double-click the barline handle of the measure in which you want to hide the key signature. In general, this is the first measure on a line. Be sure to perform these steps just before printing, to ensure that the measures with hidden key signatures don’t move from their positions at the beginning of lines.
2. Choose Key Signature > Always Hide. You can also force a key signature to appear in a measure where it would not normally appear by choosing Always Show (see Courtesy key signatures).
3. Click OK (or press ENTER).

Note. that you can also choose to display the key signature on the first staff system only in Document Options-Key Signatures.

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