Resize tool
Note. View the Fitting measures and systems QuickStart Video for an overview.
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.
Special mouse clicks
- Click
directly on a notehead to reduce or enlarge the notehead itself.
(If the note is in
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
Contextual menus are reached by right-clicking on an object. A contextual
menu will be displayed where you can select various items.
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Menu item
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What it does
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Resize Page
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Display the Resize Page dialog box
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Resize System
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Display the Resize Staff System dialog
box
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Resize Staff
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Display the Resize Staff dialog box
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Resize Note or Rest
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Display the Resize Note dialog box
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Resize Notehead
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Display the Resize Notehead dialog box
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See Also:
Main Tool
Palette
