- Click the Page Layout tool
. Dotted-line
margins appear around each system.
- Choose Page Layout > Systems > Edit Margins. The Edit System Margins dialog box appears.
- Choose Change > Select All. In
other words, you want the change you’re about to make to affect every
system in the piece. Make sure Distance Between Systems is checked and
uncheck all other boxes. We don’t want to make all of the margins the
same, just the distance between systems.
- In the Distance Between Systems text box, enter
a new value. This value is measured in whatever your Measurement
Units are set to. See the Document
menu for details. If you prefer, you can click within any
system and drag instead of typing numbers.
- Click Apply. If you like what you see, click
Close. You’ve just changed the amount of space between every system
in the piece. In so doing, you may also have changed the number of systems
able to fit on a page. (The bottom text box governs the amount of extra
space below each system.)
Note. To change the vertical spacing of systems on any number of individual pages, use the Space Systems plug-in.
Finale initially won’t let you enter negative
values, so that a system overlaps the system above it. If you really want
to create this cluttered effect, turn off Avoid Margin Collisions by choosing
it from the Page Layout menu, so that a check mark no longer appears.
