Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box

How to get there

You can access the Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure dialog box in multiple ways, depending on whether you are working in Page or Scroll View:

Choose the Ossia tool .
In Page View, double-click the measure to which you want it attached (or double-click if there’s already a floating measure attached to it). The Ossia Measure Designer dialog box appears.
Select Attach to: Measure: ___.
Click OK.

Or,

Choose the Ossia tool .
In Scroll View, double-click the measure to which you want it attached.
Click OK.

You can also access this dialog box if the Ossia measure is already in the score:

Choose the Ossia tool .
Click the measure to which it’s assigned and SHIFT+double-click its handleA small square which appears on currently "selectable" elements in the score. Handles allow you to select, edit and adjust musical elements in the score..

What it does

Noteman says: If you find that your selected measurement unit is too large or small to work with, you can override your global choice by including the units or abbreviation when entering values. Or, you can set the default measurement units used in this dialog box by choosing Finale > Measurement Units and selecting the desired units.

There are two distinctly different kinds of ossia measures. One type of floating measure, a page-assigned ossia measure (which you can create only in Page View), is attached permanently to a particular place on the page, where it will remain even if music around it is repositioned. The other, called a measure-assigned ossia measure, has a position that remains fixed relative to the measure to which it is attached, even if the measure’s position on the page changes. In this dialog box, you specify a measure-assigned floating ossia’s precise positioning in relation to the measure to which it’s attached. See Ossia.

Distance from Beginning of Measure: H: • V:. The numbers in these text boxes determine the precise position of the floating measure in relation to the measure to which it’s attached. A positive H: (horizontal) number moves the measure to the right; a positive V: (vertical) number moves the measure upward. (Keep in mind, however, that you can also move the floating measure into position in the score by dragging its handleA small square which appears on currently "selectable" elements in the score. Handles allow you to select, edit and adjust musical elements in the score..) If H: and V: were both set at zero, the floating measure would be squarely superimposed over the assigned measure.
Cancel • OK. Click OK (or press RETURN) to confirm, or Cancel to discard, the changes you’ve made and return to the score.