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To add evenly spaced staves

  1. Click the Staff tool  image\Staff_Tool.gif. The Staff menu appears.
  2. To add staves, choose Staff > New Staves. Or, select the staff handle you want the new staves to be placed above, then choose Staff > New Staves. The New Staves dialog box appears.
  3. Enter the number of new blank staves into the Number of Staves text box.
  4. To place the new staves closer to or farther apart than those already in the score, enter a value (in measurement units) into the Topline to Topline Distance text box (the distance between the top lines of each added staff).
  5. Click OK. Finale adds the specified number of new blank staves below the bottom staff, or inserts blank staves above the top selected staff in the score, using the distance specified in the New Staves dialog box, and adjusting the staves below to make room for the newly inserted staves.

 

 

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