Mike Rosen…thanks for the reply…. the advice on the mixer is certainly true…by the mixer seems to be bypassed when you use the keys alt/spacebar and the mouse to select a particular measure…finale...

finale 2014.5 on mac 10.8.5 I've been working on jazz band scores for quite a while and have not yet figured out a solution t his problem. It's in playback...no problem wiht the standard commands. I...

thanks to everyone…all this helped immensely….appreciate the time…

thanks…I'm one of them begging….

that did it….thanks…. any chance you could tell me how to do the same thing for chord symbols?