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Working with measure attributes

Working with measure attributes - Finale Tutorial

From the course: Finale Essential Training

Working with measure attributes

- [Instructor] At times you'll want to force Finale to show or hide a time or key signature. Let's look at how Measure Attributes will help us do this and more. So, I've got the 'Measure attributes start' file open if you want to follow along, and we can get to the 'Measure attributes' dialogue through both the selection tool and the measure tool, which is where I'll start, so I'll select that. Imagine a scenario where measure 10 here is at the beginning of a page and there have been a number of key changes or time signature changes along the way and you want to remind the player at the beginning of the page of what the time signature is. So, I'm going to simply click select the measure 10, and then I can get to the 'Measure attributes' dialogue a number of different ways. One of the ways is to double-click on the measure. That will open it. Another way would be to right-click and choose 'Edit measure attributes'…

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