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Thanks again, motet. Yes, keyboard shortcuts -- of course, and I blocked it out. Age.

Thanks mmike and motet. mmike's solution works perfectly for bulk translation throughout the folder, and of course I am embarrassed to not have registered the command, even though I read above and below it. I tried motet's script: ============== type alt "t" type "fx" type enter ============== as is...

Thanks, motet, but where to type these? What does

menu item "file"
menu item "Export"
menu item "MusicXML..."
button SAVE

look like after this fix?

Greetings! I wrote this script to alleviate some bulk processing now that Finale is getting elbowed out: ========================== menu item "file" menu item "Export" menu item "MIDI file..." button SAVE button OK menu item "file" menu item "Export" menu item "pdf..." button SAVE menu item "file" m...

Butt-cover 1st -- I just stumbled on Meta AI, as it appears in Whatsapp, so I thought I would try it out. It gave me a successful drawing of a monkey playing a french horn and a zebra playing a bassoon, so the next step was to see about composition. I interpret the piles of notes in its response as ...

I asked Meta AI to compose a 16-measure waltz and show the sheet music. Can you figure out how to do this from its response? The last sentence says it can be done in Finale, but I don't see how. I tried. ================================= I can generate a 16-measure waltz composition, but I'm unable ...

I just stumbled in here, having long given up on getting certain expressions to duplicate down the staves. Indeed, Select Expression > Tempo Alterations > Edit Category > Score List is the magic, so thank you Anders Hedelin, and problem solved. I can't imagine what the Finale programmer was thinking...

Ah -- Ctrl Tab with open docs -- so much better. Now these icons are completely useless. And thanks Perotinus for Ctrl-Tab on the main screen. Alt-Tab is an old friend.

Actually, I wasn't looking closely enough. The other apps I opened have a logo icon, but not on the File - Edit - etc. line, rather immediately above, at the extreme top, where the name of the app also is. Only Finale (so far) has 2 icons, not the same logo, and only the one on the menu line has "Ne...

How insightful -- I see it on many but not all programs cluttering my computer. So now it does look like a Microsoft object. Finale's icon is actually useful, having "Next" to bring up the next open doc. How would Windows know or care about what I am doing in Finale? Maybe software makers are workin...

I have Windows 10. See attached screenshot -- it seems to be Finale's creation. The icon appears to be the same icon used for all Finale docs & files.

I recently took notice of a mysterious drop-down menu, the farthest left symbol, next to the File menu. It contains: restore move size minimize maximize close next . . . most of whom are gray. I can't find any reference to it in the User Manual, nor does it display a name, like other symbolic menu h...

Yes, the process allows easily preventable errors, and it would be a valuable gesture if those flags were visible, say as red/green spots in the upper right corner near the minimize/maximize/Exit symbols, when the icons are all visible. Close-all and exit do differ at the end of the parade -- Close ...

Thanks, Peter. Save-all does exactly that, and all in a single key-press, but it doesn't disappear the docs. Close-all needs repeated keypresses, except that long-pressing N does it all at once. Curious discovery just now -- the User Manual has this imperfect information about Close-all: ===========...

Your "N" method is great -- I just hold the N key for a half second or so and they all go away.

Thanks motet, that's great! Never occurred to me. Maybe I will write a script to type "N" 20 times.

Thanks, motet, that's what I thought & I forgot the part about the pointless saves. I have noticed though that sometimes some unchanged docs do disappear when it is their turn to get clicked. Remembering the other problem I asked about last week -- getting Playback to respond to scripts (remember "R...

Sorry if this question has come up here -- I can't find it. Is there a fast way to shut down Finale when there are many docs open? I don't see any way to side-step the "Save changes to ..." dialog box. It wouldn't be so bad if the location of the dialog box didn't move left & right depending on the ...

Thanks much for trying. motet. I didn't notice the counter move -- that's a sign of life, at least.

I will take this to Finale-help. It's a nice play-along practice convenience that they ought to be interested in, or just a bug in the existing software.

Attached, a screen image. Same failure. I didn't want button instead of click, but the manual guided me to it, so I tried it.

As before, while the tune is playing, I click Run Script and nothing happens. When I press alt-z or alt-Z it beeps and nothing else happens.

Thanks, I wish I could say that worked. I see in the command ref: Parameters ======================== ok cancel set font delete save select Notes This command only works with the six label attributes listed; for other buttons, use button "label". Examples click ok click set font ====================...

Now I am more confused than before. I revisited the command-reference page of the User Manual and found: menu item: Chooses the specified menu item. which is what I expected. It isn't about disappearing the entire Playback tool from the screen. I have used "menu item" a lot in my slim collection of ...

Thanks motet, I should have looked at the fscript dictionary. When I put Rewind in quotes, it lit up like it was understood as a command. Now I see there is only "Play" in the command dictionary from Playback. Does this mean that the task can't be done with a keyboard-coded script? Or more generally...

Greetings! I want to make a FinaleScript with a keyboard shortcut that will allow me to rewind playback by a given number of measures. My 1st try, for 8-measure rewind is failing: ============================= menu item "playback controls" "Rewind" "Rewind" "Rewind" "Rewind" "Rewind" "Rewind" "Rewin...

Belated thanks for your suggestion, motet. I got distracted but I will try this.