By choosing Up or Down you can manually flip a region of stems up or down. Finale normally decides whether a note’s stem should go up or down depending on its vertical position in the staff. If you’ve specified a multiple-voice arrangement—for example, upper voice = stems up, lower voice = stems down—using Document Options-Layers (Document menu), Finale again chooses stem directions automatically.
You are here: Flipping a stem (Speedy Entry)Toflip a stem. Click the Speedy Entry tool, and click the measurein question. The editing frame appears.
Click the note whose stem you want to flip.(Or use the arrow keys to position the insertion bar.) Make certain you’rein the correct layer (if you’ve entered music in Layers) and the correctvoice (if you’re using the Voice 1/Voice 2 feature). Press SHIFT+’(apostrophe) to change layers; press the apostrophe key to change voices. Press the L key to freeze the stem in the oppositedirection. When a stem is “frozen” up or down, it’s no longer freeto change directions if it gets transposed.
To restore a stem to its “floating”status, position the insertion bar on the note and press CTRL+L.