When you click the
Staff Tool, the Staff Menu appears, and appear on each staff and on staff-related items in the
score. Select a handle then choose a menu command, or use the shortcuts
listed below. The shortcuts are arranged by what the handle controls:
staff handles and staves, group handles (includes the group name), staff
name handles and bracket handles.
Staff handles and staves:
Staff handles always appear on staves in
the score, even on staves that are hidden.
- Click
the Staff Tool to display the Staff Menu. Handles appear on each
staff and staff-related item in the score.
- Click
a staff or a staff handle, or drag-enclose staff handles to select
a staff (or staves).
- Shift-click
a staff or a staff handle to add the staff to the selection. If
a staff is already selected, Shift-click to remove the staff from the
selection.
- Double-click
a staff or a staff handle or control-click
a staff handle and choose Edit Staff Attributes to edit the staff's
attributes.
- Double-click
in the score (in Scroll View) to add a staff without repositioning
the lower staves to make room for the new staff.
- Double-click
below a staff in the score (in Scroll View) to insert a staff between
staves, repositioning the lower staves to make room for the new staff.
- Option-Shift-click
a staff or staff handle in one or more selected staves (or
control-click
the handle and select Add Group and Bracket from the contextual menu)
to create a new group for the selected staves.
- Press
shift-delete for selected staves, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Staves from the contextual menu to
delete the selected staves without repositioning the remaining staves.
Note: If a staff system
has been optimized using the Page Layout Tool, two handles will appear
on each staff in the optimized staff system.
- Press
delete for selected staves, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Staves and Reposition from the contextual
menu to delete the selected staves and reposition the remaining
staves.
Note: If a staff system
has been optimized using the Page Layout Tool, two handles will appear
on each staff in the optimized staff system.
- Press delete for a selected region to clear all Staff Styles in that region.
- Select
the bottom staff handle or handles in Page View and press Shift-delete
for selected staves, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Staves from the contextual menu to
delete the selected staves for that system only without repositioning
the remaining staves.
Note: This will remove
the optimized staff from the system regardless of whether it contains
music.
- Select
the bottom staff handle or handles in Page View and press shift-delete
for selected staves, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Staves and Reposition from the contextual
menu to delete the selected staves for that system only and reposition
the remaining staves.
Note: This will remove
the optimized staff from the system regardless of whether it contains
music.
- Drag
a staff handle in Scroll View (when Special Part Extraction is not selected
in the Document Menu) to adjust the staff’s position in Scroll View
and every staff system in Page View.
- Drag
a staff handle in Scroll View (when Special Part Extraction is selected
in the Document Menu) to adjust the staff’s position in Scroll View
only. The placement of staves remains unchanged in Page View. (When you
choose Special Part Extraction from the Document Menu, Finale removes the
checkmark by the command, and displays the full score using the new positioning
in Scroll View.)
- Drag
a staff handle in Page View (when Special Part Extraction is not selected
in the Document Menu) to adjust the staff’s position in every staff
system in Page View and the position of the staff in Scroll View. When
the top staff is adjusted, Finale adjusts the distance between staves,
as well as staff systems.
Note: If two handles
appear on a staff, drag the top handle
- Drag
a staff handle in Page View (when Special Part Extraction is selected
in the Document Menu) to adjust the staff’s position in every staff
system in Page View; leave the position of the staff unchanged in Scroll
View. Finale adjusts the distance between staves, as well as staff systems.
Note: If two handles
appear on a staff, drag the top handle
- Drag
the bottom staff handle in Page View to Adjust the staff’s position only
in the current staff system (drag the top handle to adjust the
position of the staff in all staff systems in Page View).
Note: If a staff system
has been optimized using the Page Layout Tool, two handles will appear
on each staff in the optimized staff system.
- Hold
down clear
while clicking on a staff with Staff Styles or on the Style Bar
to remove the selected Staff Style from the selected region.
- Double-click
on a Staff Style bar to display the selected Staff Styles dialog
box.
Group handles:
Group handles always
appear on existing groups of staves in the score, even if you did not
enter a group name.
Click a group handle, or drag-enclose group
handles to select a group (or groups of staves).
- Click
a group handle, or drag-enclose group handles to select a group
(or groups).
- Shift-click
a group handle to add the group to the selection. If a group is
already selected, Shift-click to remove the group from the selection.
- Double-click
a group handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Group Attributes from the contextual menu
to edit the group’s attributes. The Group Attributes
dialog box appears.
- Option-click
a group handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Full Group Name or Edit Abbreviated Group Name
from the contextual menu to edit a group name. The Edit
Text window appears.
- Option-shift-click
a group handle, or control-click
the handle and select Position Full Group Name or Position Abbreviated
Group Name from the contextual menu to position a group name. The
Position Full Group Name or Position Abbreviated Group Name dialog box
appears.
- Press
clear
for selected groups to revert the position of the group names to
their default position.
- Press
delete for selected groups, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Group from the contextual menu to
remove the selected group definitions.
- Drag
a group handle to adjust the position of a group name.
Staff name handles:
Staff name handles appear on existing staves
in the score only if you have entered a staff name, or if Finale's default
staff name appears for an unnamed staff.
- Click
a staff name handle, or drag-enclose staff name handles to select
a staff name (or names).
- Shift-click
a full or abbreviated staff name handle to add the staff name to
the selection. If a staff name is already selected, Shift-click to remove
the staff name from the selection.
- Double-click
a full or abbreviated staff name handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Staff Attributes from the contextual menu
to edit the staff’s attributes. The Staff Attributes
dialog box appears.
- Option-double-click
a full or abbreviated staff name handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Full Staff Name or Edit Abbreviated Staff Name
from the contextual menu to edit a full or abbreviated staff name.
The Edit Text window appears for the selected
name.
- Option-shift-click
a full or abbreviated staff name handle, or control-click
the handle and select Position Full Staff Name or Position Abbreviated
Staff Name from the contextual menu to Position the selected staff
name. The Position Full Staff Name or Position Abbreviated Staff Name
dialog box appears.
- Press
clear
for a selected staff name handle to revert the position of the full or
abbreviated staff name to its default position.
- Drag
a full or abbreviated staff name handle to adjust the position
of the selected staff name.
Bracket handles:
Two bracket handles
appear on each bracket on a group, even if you did not enter a group name.
Click a bracket handle, or drag-enclose
several bracket handles to select a bracket (or brackets).
- Click
a bracket handle, or drag-enclose several bracket handles to select
a bracket (or brackets).
- Shift-click
a bracket handle to add the bracket to the selection. If a bracket
is already selected, Shift-click to remove the bracket from the selection.
- Double-click
a bracket handle, or control-click
the handle and select Edit Group Attributes from the contextual menu
to edit a group. The Group Attributes dialog box
appears.
- Press
delete for selected brackets, or control-click
the handle and select Delete Bracket from the contextual menu to
remove the selected brackets of the selected group definition.
- Press
clear
for selected brackets to revert the selected brackets to their
default length.
- Drag
a bracket handle vertically to make a bracket taller or shorter.
- Drag
a bracket handle horizontally to move a bracket closer to or away
from bracketed staves.