Hi Larry, you need to clear the pickup measure in the same way you created it. Document menu > Pickup Measure... and press the Clear Pickup button.

Charles, repeat brackets have always been a problem in Page View, right from the earliest versions of Finale. They do not shrink and stretch properly when music spacing and update page layout are...

I would say the most important thing, much more than saving paper, is that the musician can read and play the music easily, with nicely-spaced systems and page turns carefully positioned so as to...

Hi, you can test whether your bass drum and all other percussion sounds are working OK. Start a new "Document Without Libraries" from File >New menu. With the staff tool set the First Clef to Bass...

Out of interest, is there a way of doing this with Finale without using graphic barlines?