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Utilities menu

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The Utilities menu is one of Finale's unchanging menus.

What it does

The Utilities menu is one of the most versatile menus in Finale. Its commands transform your music in many powerful ways. Its commands work on selected regions as small as a single beat, or as large as the entire score. All the commands described below work on partial or full-measure selections, except as noted otherwise. Select a region with any tool that supports measure selection and these commands are available.

Note that commands in the Utilities menu that affect a selected region of music (such as Music Spacing) can be interrupted. Simply press Escape to stop processing the command.

 

Transpose

Transpose Percussion Notes

Respell Notes

Fit Measures

Move to Previous System

Move to Next System

Lock Systems

Unlock Systems

Music Spacing

Apply Beat Spacing

Apply Note Spacing

Apply Time Signature Spacing

Apply Music Spacing to Selected Parts/Score

Update Layout

Update Smart Word Extensions and Hyphens

Rebar

Rebar Music

Rebar Options

Rebeam

Rebeam Music

Rebeam to Time Signature

Rebeam to Lyrics

Explode Music

Implode Music

SmartMusic Markers

Add/Remove Capo Chords

Apply Articulation

Check Notation

Elapsed Time

Ties

Convert Mirrors

Fill With Rests

Remove Manual Slur Adjustments

Reset All Groups and Brackets

Stem Direction

Up

Down

Use Default Direction

Change

Articulation Assignments

Chords

Lowest Fret

Note Durations

Note Expression Assignments

Note Size

Noteheads

Ties

Tuplets

Change Instrument

 

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