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=Back to FINALE HOME]= =Having Problems with Finale?=

You might try visiting MakeMusic's support page, but here are some common problems/fixes.
A cool iPad app called "Duet Display" allows you to use it to gain additional "real estate" when working in Finale (or other apps). READ ABOUT IT HERE.
 * DUET DISPLAY**

Finale Crashes on Start-up. Recent versions of Finale sometimes crash soon after launching.
====The best fix is to trash Finale's Preferences, then restart the program. On a Mac, the preferences are found by following this path:Hard Drive/Users/User Name/Library/Preferences/Finale 200? Preferences====

Finale Crashes On Playback.
Copies of Finale running on a network have been known to crash when the user hits the PLAY button. The problem involves some bad programming on MakeMusic’s part for Finale running with different User accounts (like you’d have in a public institution in a lab) on Mac OSX. One fix is to TURN OFF Human Playback, but that's bad because Human Playback is so useful. Here’s a better fix:

MISCELLANEOUS "HOW TO's":

 * ====Different Music Playing on Successive Passes of a Repeated Section. Say you want your trumpet section to only play a written part on ONLY the 2nd time through a repeated section. Here's how you set this up in Finale!====
 * ====Creating and Saving Finale Document Styles - Explained simply in the Finale Blog.====
 * Using the Score Manager for instrument changes in a staff (i.e. A. Sax doubles flute, etc.)

Finale Tips
OTHER GREAT LINKS:
 * 1) Finale main website
 * 2) Compare features of the various Finale family products
 * 3) Finale Version Comparison (Pre 2007-2011 -what’s new in the product for each new version…)
 * 4) Download a free finale demo (Mac or Windows)
 * 5) Buy Finale (Academic Price Discount)
 * 6) Find FREE finale music files from the Finale Showcase
 * 7) Finale Music Blog (official)
 * 8) Finale Support Forums (official)
 * 9) Finale Online User Manuals
 * 10) Finale Quick Reference Guide (Cheat Sheets)
 * 11) Fingering Chart Generator - create and download image files for fingering diagrams for woodwind and folk instruments.
 * 12) Free Finale reader (open and print .mus files)
 * 13) Dr. Tom Rudolph’s “Making the Most of Notation Software” Blog
 * 14) Free Instrumental Scores from IMSLP
 * 15) Free Choral Scores from the Choral Public Domain Library
 * 16) Get FREE classical MIDI files from Kunstderfuge.com (download 5 per day)
 * 17) Dr. Frank’s Finale Keyboard Shortcuts (PDF)
 * 18) Tom Carruth’s Finale Quick Start Guide (From SoundTree)
 * 19) Finale Keyboard Stickers

Finale: A Musician's Best Friend. Although I don't maintain this blog any longer, it has some good tips, tricks, links, etc.