Erasing
You can erase any individual element of music from any specified region: lyrics, chord symbols, articulations, and so on, without removing any actual notes. If you want, you can also quickly erase all elements, including notes, from the desired region.
To erase everything from a selected region
- Choose the Selection tool
and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
- Press CLEAR (laptop users Fn-6) or select Edit > Clear All Items. Finale erases all music, leaving empty measures behind.
If you want to remove the measures too, double-click until the full measure stack is selected and press DELETE. Pressing DELETE without a full selection erases the music without deleting the measures themselves.