In observing the steps people go through to change visibility of text between score and parts in both Finale and Sibelius, I thought a short tutorial post on the subject might be helpful.
In both Finale and Sibelius, headers and other types of text are normally shared between the score and the parts, visible in both. The default setting in both programs is to show the text entered in the score in both score and parts.
It is a simple key shortcut to Show or Hide individual occurrences of text as you edit each part (the keystroke toggles visibility in both programs):
- Finale : CNTRL-ALT-SHIFT-H / windows • CMND-OPT-SHIFT-H / mac
- Sibelius : CNTRL-SHIFT-H / windows • CMND-SHIFT-H / mac
… However, this is a lot of extra steps, particularly in an orchestral score with a lot of parts. It is much easier to do this in a single step for cases where you want the visibility of all the parts set the same way, and the score set a different way:
Let’s say I have a piece of text that I want hidden in the score, but visible in the parts:
For instance, I don’t want to show the “Concert Score” text centered at the top of every page of score, but I do want to show the instrument name in the same location on every page of every part.
This is relatively straightforward to to in both Finale and Sibelius:
FINALE:
- Go to score view
- With the Text Tool selected, right click on the text object you want to hide in score.
- Check Show if it is not already checked
- Select Unlink in All Parts
- Check Show again. It toggles to become Hide
SIBELIUS:
- Go to the Score View
- Right-click on the text object you want to hide in score.
- Select Hide or Show > Show In Parts from the contextual menu.
To Hide Text in all the parts, while showing in the score, use the same steps, with the following minor differences:
- Finale – in step 1 above, (parts still linked), Hide before steps 2 &3 (all text hidden, unlink, toggle hide to show in score).
- Sibelius – Choose Show in Score from the contextual menu.