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Preferences-New dialog box

How to get there

Choose Edit > Preferences and select New.

What it does

Choose New to make settings related to opening new documents. Change the default file name, select the type of document to open when launching Finale and specify how to view any new document when it first opens.

Default Document Name; Browse. Type in the name of the Template you want to use for your default file or use the Browse button to search for the file. Finale's included default document, Maestro Font Default.ftmx, is located in the Finale 2014/Music Files folder.
Default New Operation • Setup Wizard • Default Document. Select one of these options to set the keyboard shortcut for New (CTRL+N) to the default document or Setup Wizard.
Startup Action: Finale Launch Window • Document Setup Wizard • New Default Document • New Document with Template • Open Document • No Action. Select which item from the New submenu of the File menu will be your preferred startup action. Document Setup Wizard will take you through the Setup Wizard on startup. New Default Document will open a new document based on your selected default file. New Document with Template will allow you to select a template to open as the basis of your file. Open document will allow you to open any document. No Action will just allow Finale to start and not open any document on startup.
Display Setup Wizard When Opening a Template. Check this box to indicate that you would like to open the "Score Information" and "Score Settings" pages of the Setup Wizard to customize templates prior to opening them. These pages appear after choosing the File menu > New > Document From Template and opening a template file. Uncheck this box to indicate that you would like Finale to open templates without prompting you with these pages of the Setup Wizard.See Setup Wizard.
View Percent. Select the View percentage new documents should display when opened.
View: Scroll View • Page View • Page View Style • Studio View. Select which view, Scroll View or Page View, new documents should display when opened. From the Page View Style drop-down menu, choose the desired Page View Style. See View/ Page View Style.
Maximize. Select this check box to allow new documents to open with a maximized window.
Show Rulers. Select this option if you want Finale to display rulers in new windows when they are created. This setting affects the initial setting of the Show Rulers command in the View menu. To show or hide rulers in an individual window without affecting the Preferences, use the Show Rulers command.