When you create parts using Finale’s Linked
Parts and Special Part Extraction commands, Finale groups all empty measures
into multimeasure rests. If you would rather control which measures get
combined into multimeasure rests, you can select the measures that you
want to combine into a multimeasure rest in your score.
- Choose the Selection
Tool
.
- Select the region that contains the measures
you want to display as a multi-measure rest. You can also select
your whole score. (You must be in Page View to do this.)
- Choose Edit > Multimeasure Rests > Create. Finale creates multimeasure rests in the
selected region, using the same rules as when you use Special Part Extraction
to create rests—breaking them at key and time signatures, or when you’ve
selected Break a Multimeasure Rest in the Measure Attributes dialog box
for the measure. In order for measures to be grouped, they must contain
default whole rests. If a whole rest was entered in a measure, that measure
will not be included in a multimeasure rest until you erase the whole
rest (using the Simple Entry or Speedy Entry tools, or the Edit menu's
Clear commands).
- Choose Utilities > Update Layout to
ensure that Finale is displaying the current layout of the score.
