Staff Tool

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In addition to adding and deleting staves, use the Staff Tool to edit staff-specific characteristics using the Staff Attributes dialog box. Define attributes such as the staff's name, clef, transposition (if you're notating a transposing instrument's part) and so on. Or, specify the number of lines in the staff, and show or hide certain musical elements in the staff such as measure numbers, expression markings, time signatures and so on.

You can also create groups of staves; use the Group Attributes dialog box to define groups of instruments in the score and for part extraction, add a bracket to a group and specify how the barline appears on the grouped staves. An individual staff can belong to any number of groups.

When you click the Staff Tool, a Staff Menu appears that contains all the commands for working with staves and groups of staves: adding, deleting, positioning and spacing staves, creating customized staff attributes, defining groups of staves, adding brackets and piano braces, and so on.

 

When you click the Staff Tool, the Staff Menu appears, and handles 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.

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.

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.

Note: This will remove the optimized staff from the system regardless of whether it contains music.

Note: This will remove the optimized staff from the system regardless of whether it contains music.

Note: If two handles appear on a staff, drag the top handle

Note: If two handles appear on a staff, drag the top handle

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.

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).

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.

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).

 

 

See Also:

Main Tool Palette

Staff Menu

 

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