Document Settings and Program Settings

Finale settings either are saved with the document (so that the settings are retained when opening the document on another computer) or are specific to a particular installation of Finale. When you install a new version of Finale on your computer, program settings are not copied from the previous version. To migrate these settings, see To migrate settings and support files from one version of Finale to another.

Document settings

• View menu: Snap to Grid, Snap to Guides, Scroll View, Page View, View Percentage, Staff Sets, Show Grid, Show Guides, Show Rulers, Layer Selection
• Document menu: Show Active Layer Only, Display in Concert Pitch, Special Part Extraction
• Staff menu: Set Default Name Positions (all)
• Measure menu: Show/Hide Measure Numbers
• Smart Shape menu: Direction
• Chord menu: Chord Style, Left Align Chords, Show Fretboards, Simplify Spelling
• Text menu: Size, Style, Justification, Word Wrap, Attach New Text to Measure/Page
• Page Layout menu: Avoid Margin Collision, Update Page Format for Score
• Dialog boxes: Accidental Octave Placement, Accidental Order and Amount, Adjust Baselines, Adjust Page Range, Alternate Notation, Apply Staff Style, Articulation Selection, Assign to Staves, Baseline Shift, Character Settings, Chord Suffix Selection, Clef Designer, Clef Selection, Click and Countoff, Composite Time Signature, Document Options (all), Duration Allotments, Edit Frame, Edit Page Margins, Edit System Margins, Enclosure Designer, Executable Shape Selection, Expression Selection, Extract Parts, Font, Fretboard Shape Selection, Fretboard Instrument Definition, Fretboard Styles, Fretboard Style Fonts and Shapes, Group Attributes, Key Signature, Key Step Map, Line Spacing, Measure Assignment for Ossia Measure, Measure Attributes, Measure Number, Nonstandard Key Signature, Ossia Measure Designer, Page Assignment for Ossia Measure, Page Format for Score, Page Format for Parts, Page Offset, Page Setup, Page Size, Percussion Layout Designer, Percussion Layout Selection, Playback/Record Options, Position, Position Measure Number, Repeat Selection, Respace Staves, Rulers and Grid, Select Staff System Range, Shape Selection, Size, Slur Contour, Smart Shape Options, Smart Shape Placement, Special Key Signature Attributes, Staff Attributes, Staff Setup, Staff Styles, Staff Transpositions, Staff Usage, Stem Connections, Superscript, Symbol List, Symbol Selection, Tablature Staff Attributes, Tie Contour, Time Signature, Tone Center, Tracking, Transposition

Program settings

• Edit menu: Enharmonic Spelling, Measurement Units
• View menu: Show Margins, Show Page Layout Icons
• Staff menu: Show Staff Styles, Show Default Staff/Group Names
• Speedy menu: Use MIDI Device for Input, Playback, Jump to Next Measure, Create New Measures, Check Beaming, Check for Extra Notes, Use Five Line Staff, Edit TAB as Standard Notation, Insert Notes Or Rests
• HyperScribe menu: Beat Source, Record Mode
• Chord menu: Input Method, Substitute Symbols, Italicize Capo Chords
• Special Tools menu: Tie Direction, Show Handles
• Note Mover menu: Note Mover Method
• Window menu: [Palette configuration]
• Dialog boxes: Export MIDI File Options, Fixed Split Point, Fretboard Editor, HyperScribe Options, Import MIDI File Options, MIDI Event, MIDI Setup, MIDI Thru, MIDI Thru Table, Playback and/or Click, Preferences (all), Quantization Settings, Rebar Options, Simple Entry Options, Speedy Entry Options, Tap Source, Tap States