I posted the answer to this somewhere recently. Either on this list or
the Finale list.

Really quite serendipitously for linked parts, these options happen to
cause every number to be a "forced" number. (The original purpose had
nothing to do with linked parts.) That means they only appear on the
staff or staves you select. Otherwise they would appear on every staff
(assuming you turned on meas nums in the staff attributes) and in every
part (if you use the Top Staff option).

Aaron Sherber wrote:

>
> I think what confuses me is why the "Show every" and "Beginning with"
> options work the way they do.

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Robert Patterson

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