Music notation software

Finale: joining or dividing known beams

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The signs of age are also those like when you knew how to do something with a program, and after not doing it for a while, when you need to apply it again, you no longer remember how to do it. I should group sixteenth notes in groups of six in measures with 6/4 time, but Finale joins them two by two. I seem to remember that years ago (I used a 2009 version or thereabouts) you would go into speedy entry, then select a note and press slash and it would join it with the previous one, but with the 2014 version this system doesn't seem to work anymore. Also, if there were a macro to do it for a certain number of measures all at once, that would be even better. Can anyone help me?

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Reply 4 by Corrado

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Great Egidio, I feel comfortable with speedy entry and using the slash key; I also got stuck because I had tried to use the slash above the 7 key on the keyboard, whereas you need to use the one from the numeric keypad. Trade 1 thanks to you too, I seem to notice that using the letter "b" is equivalent to the numeric keypad slash, it's probably included to allow those who don't have it to use this function. Thanks so much guys!

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