Silences “stuck notes” during MIDI playback.

Re-routes MIDI information from one channel to another.

Specifies the interface and ports you’re using for MIDI playback and recording.

Performs housekeeping tasks: search-and-replace for fonts, compact your document, and so on.

Specifies the typeface for the musical elements in this document: chord symbols, lyrics, and so on.

Controls how stems attach to various notehead shapes.

Governs the look of ties and fonts when printed on a PostScript printer.

Changes the shape of curly piano braces.

Changes the shape of noteheads (to X’s, slashes, and so on) for each degree of the scale.

Changes miscellaneous settings that govern beaming, clef changes, block rests, grace notes, and so on.

Establishes the distances between staff elements (key signature, clef, dots, and so on), and the shape of ties.

Changes the musical symbol used to represent each kind of note, rest, and accidental.

Controls the thickness of staff lines, ledger lines, barlines, and stems.

Governs stem direction, tie direction, and rest positions in each of Finale’s four transparent staff Layers.

Hint: Use Layers to notate independent musical voices.

Establishes the dimensions, margins, and music size for new pages of music.

Changes the appearance of ties.

Modifies the position and musical meaning of clefs.

Controls four aspects of Finale: the Undo command, rebarring, syncopations in transcribing,  and automatic backups.

Controls the appearance of clefs, key changes, time signatures, and other elements. 

Changes the units of measurement used in all Finale dialog boxes and rulers.

Options menu 

Fine-tunes the display and printout of your score: the thickness of beams, curliness of piano braces, and so on.

 Checked because this is the current setting. 
One inch = 6 picas.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to picas.

One inch = 6 picas.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to points. Checked because this is the current setting. 

One inch = 72 points.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to points.

One inch = 72 points.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to centimeters. Checked because this is the current setting. 

One inch = about 2.54 cm.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to centimeters.

One inch = about 2.54 cm.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to inches. Checked because this is the current setting. 

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to inches.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to EVPUs. Checked because this is the current setting. 

One inch = 288 EVPUs.

Changes the units used in dialog boxes to EVPUs.

One inch = 288 EVPUs.