Using the Mirror tool, you can create a measure that contains intelligent copies of individual notes from several normal measures. The resulting patchwork measure is called a composite mirror.

Note. Composite mirroring combines notes from different measures into a single measure. If you want to create a mirror consisting of selected notes from a single measure, copy the entire measure (see To create a mirror, above), and see To rebeam or edit an existing mirror, below, for instructions on choosing selective elements of it. 

To create a composite mirror

1. Choose Window > Advanced Tools. Click the Mirror Tool  ; then double-click an empty measure (the target measure). The Tilting Mirror dialog box appears, so called because it can be made to “reflect” the contents of any other measure in the score. At the moment, the Tilting Mirror dialog box is blank.
2. Click the up, down, left, or right arrow buttons to maneuver your “window” on the score to the measure whose notes you want to mirror. Click the UP ARROW to move up a staff, the right arrow to move to the next measure, and so on. As you proceed, you’ll see the contents of each measure you view, adjusted for the target measure’s clef. (If you move your “view” to another mirrored measure, it appears blank in this window.)
3. When you’re viewing a measure whose notes you want to mirror, drag the cut bar handles inward to enclose the desired notes. The “cut bars” are the dotted lines at each end of the window, whose handles you drag to move them.
4. Click Next. Finale keeps track of the notes you just selected and restores the cut bars to the ends of the window, ready for another set of notes.
5. Repeat the last three steps, as necessary. Use the arrows to locate the measure, the cut bars to identify the notes, and click Next to add the selected notes to the target measure. To remove one of the elements of your composite mirror, click the Prev (or Next) button until the notes appear in the window; then click Delete. If you want to insert a new selection between two existing ones, click the Prev or Next buttons until you’re viewing the selection after the insertion point; then click Insert. Use the directional arrows and cut bars as usual.
6. Click OK. The Mirror Attributes dialog box appears. Specify a transposition, and specify musical items to ignore (Don’t Draw), as needed.
7. Click OK (or press ENTER). The composite measure appears in the score with a mirror icon. If any of your measure-fragment selections were blank, any selections after the blank selection are ignored.

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