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Noteman says: View the Enter and edit lyrics QuickStart Video for an overview.

At that place are two ways to add together lyrics to your score in Finale. You tin can type the lyrics directly into the score, so that you know at all times where you are in the music—a feature called Blazon Into Score. Or you may prefer the Click Assignment method—where you lot blazon the lyrics in Finale's text processor (called the Lyrics window), and then paste them into the score. Regardless of the method you use, the Lyrics window is available for ease in entry and editing.

Noteman says: See Calculation lyrics for a step-past-step tutorial overview on calculation lyrics.

Finale defines a syllable as any letters separated by a space or a hyphen. When yous put the lyrics into the score, Finale places the syllable in your score past the settings in the Lyrics Options dialog box, centers the hyphen between notes, and moves whatsoever syllable correspondingly if its notehead moves. Finale as well provides a mode to automatically beam notes according to lyric syllables.

Lyrics are frequently written in distinct sections—verse and chorus, for example. For that reason, Finale provides three different lyric types—Verse, Chorus, and Department. These types are identical in every respect—you can write the verse of a vocal and define it as a Chorus, if you want to—except that you tin can set the default font and positioning for each type differently. You lot could specify, for example, that all Verses are to be ready in boldface type, just that all Choruses are set in italic type. (You can take as many as 512 of each lyric type. You can likewise modify the font and mode within any lyric.)

Inbound and deleting lyrics

To blazon lyrics directly into the score

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyric menu appears. If yous want to specify a lyric blazon (Verse, Chorus, or Section), choose Lyric > Specify Current Lyric. If you don't specify a type, your beginning lyrics will be a Poesy.
2. If yous're returning from other lyric editing, choose Lyric > Type Into Score.
3. Click a notation to display a blinking cursor beneath the staff. You are now set up to offset typing. A ready of four positioning triangles appears at the left edge of the screen. The triangles control the baseline of the lyrics (against which the bottom edges of the words line upwards). For a full discussion, run into To fix the baseline (vertical position) for lyrics graphically, below.
4. Blazon the lyrics. Each fourth dimension you blazon a space or a hyphen, Finale automatically moves the insertion indicate in preparation for entering the adjacent syllable. As yous blazon, Finale automatically scrolls the music so you ever know where you are.

If you make a mistake, merely press BACKSPACE. (At the previous syllable, Finale highlights the whole syllable and so that you can replace it all at once with anything you blazon.) To modify a give-and-take you lot've already typed, click in the staff so that the syllable is highlighted, and and then blazon its replacement. Or, you tin change the text in the Lyrics window.

Noteman says: When you enter lyrics using this method, pay special attention when entering additional lyric lines, 1 beneath another. To add together a new lyric line, be certain to change Verses before typing in each new line; to practice and so, , choose Lyrics > Specify Current Lyric. Otherwise, all the lyrics, even successive lines, are all part of the same "verse," and unexpected results may occur.

If you run across a melismatic passage, where 1 syllable is sustained through several melody notes, press the space bar for each annotation of the melisma; the cursor will skip ahead to the next note and a discussion extension will announced for the duration of the melisma.

As you lot type, Finale stores each syllable in its congenital-in text processor, the Lyrics window. It's important to understand that the Lyrics window and the lyrics in the score are dynamically linked. If you alter a syllable in the Lyrics window, every occurrence of the syllable is automatically changed in the score—and vice versa.

Notice the syllables you blazon also appear in the Lyrics window. You can also use the Lyrics window to brand changes to the font, way, or size of lyrics. Also, once Lyrics appear in the Lyrics window, they tin be click-assigned anywhere in the score.

Tip: if you desire a quick MIDI audio check of the notes you're attaching lyrics to, hold downwards CTRL and SPACEBAR and drag the cursor across the staff. Finale plays whatever note the cursor touches, no matter which management you drag.

To ready lyrics in a separate window

This is the outset step to calculation lyrics to the score using the Click Assignment method.

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics window appears.
2. Type the lyrics, including hyphens within polysyllabic words.
   • If you've copied lyrics from another program (such every bit a discussion processor), press CTRL+V (for Paste).
   • If yous make a error, press the BACKSPACE key.
   • If y'all're anticipating a melisma (ane syllable held over several notes), type Alt+0160 and a regular space for each extra note through which the syllable is held. (Word extensions volition be placed in the score where advisable).
   • You can cut (by pressing CTRL+X), copy (by pressing CTRL+C), or paste (by pressing CTRL+V) any selected text; select text by dragging through information technology.
   • To view some other Verse (or Chorus, or Department), select it from the dropdown menus.
3. When you're finished, click OK.

To identify lyrics into the score (click assignment)

Noteman says: View Tutorial 5: Lyrics, chords, and repeats for an overview.

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics window and Lyrics carte appear.
2. Choose Lyrics > Click Consignment, or click in the Lyrics window.
3. In the Lyrics window, click to the left of the offset syllable you want to enter. A blinking cursor appears to the left of the syllable. If the first syllable you would similar to enter is the first one listed in the text box you can skip this step.
4. To place one syllable at a fourth dimension, click the showtime melody note. You must click on the staff at the position of the annotation—non necessarily on the notation itself. When you click, the next syllable in the Lyrics window becomes highlighted, indicating the next syllable in queue. Notation: you lot must take the layer in which the notes are placed active for lyrics to be fastened. (Also, if you want to attach lyrics to notes in Phonation ii, concord down the SHIFT cardinal, then click on the notation.)
5. If you desire to assign all the lyrics at once, click the get-go melody annotation while pressing CTRL. This technique, called CTRL-click-assigning, tells Finale to assign each of the syllables, one after another, to consecutive melody notes, automatically skipping rests, tied notes, and notes in different layers and voices. If any syllables are assigned to the incorrect notes, see To correct misaligned lyrics below.

You have to echo this process for each Verse, Chorus, or Section. If you have a second verse, for example, merely scroll back to its first spot, click the up button adjacent to Poesy one, and CTRL-click-assign again.

If you wish, you tin can move the next syllable to be assigned (the "on-deck" syllable) by highlighting information technology, placing the cursor next to it, or selected a series of lyrics with the desired word offset. If y'all make a mistake, when you Undo the assignment, the "on-deck" syllable will automatically 'back up' to allow you to correctly re-assign it.

To edit lyrics already in the score

The method described below is useful for making small changes to lyrics you lot've already placed in the score—correcting a misspelling, for example. If the editing yous need to do is more than extensive, it may be easier merely to exercise it direct in the Lyrics window. Afterwards specifying the lyric type and number (past choosing Lyrics > Specify Current Lyric), choose Lyrics > Lyrics window. Whatever changes you make in the Lyrics window automatically bear on the lyrics in the score.

Noteman says: If y'all take placed the same syllable on more i note in your score, all instances of the syllable will be changed.

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics window and Lyrics card appear.
2. If y'all're returning from other lyric editing, choose Lyrics > Type Into Score. Click on the staff at the position of the syllable you desire to edit. The syllable is highlighted.
3. Type the new syllable. Anything you blazon replaces the highlighted syllable.
4. Press SPACEBAR to advance to the next syllable. Printing BACKSPACE to remove what you've just typed. To select whatever syllable, click inside the staff lines; the syllable becomes highlighted, so that y'all tin replace it with whatever you now blazon.

To motility or delete a syllable

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Arrange Syllables.
3. Click on the staff at the position of the syllable you want to motion and so that its handle appears.

   Don't click the syllable. Just click within the staff lines in line with the syllable yous want to move or delete.

4. Accommodate the syllable:
   • Elevate the handle to reposition the syllable.
   • Select the handle and press the arrow keys to "nudge" it for fine positioning.
   • Select the handle and printing DELETE to remove the syllable.

     Note that this method of deleting a syllable doesn't pull the following syllables one note to the left; it allows yous just to remove a selected syllable, leaving all other syllables where they are. To delete a syllable and have the remaining syllables slide over to compensate, see To right misaligned lyrics above.

5. To restore a syllable to its original position, click its handle and press BACKSPACE.

To copy lyrics

1. Choose the Selection tool and select a region. See Selecting music for some region-selecting shortcuts.
2. Cull Edit > Edit Filter. The Edit Filter dialog box appears.
3. Click None and select Lyrics.
4. Click OK.
5. Drag the first selected measure so that information technology's superimposed on the first target mensurate. If the get-go target mensurate isn't on the screen, scroll to it, and then CTRL+SHIFT-click information technology. In either case, the lyrics are copied from the source option to the target music.

   Finale but places lyrics in the target region on notes that autumn on the same beats as they did in the source region.

To clone lyrics

Use this method to copy the lyrics from one staff (the source staff) to another (the target staff). This technique, still, only copies one ready of lyrics at a time—either the Poesy, Chorus, or Section currently specified past the Specify Current Lyric command, or the last lyric you edited.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Clone Lyric.
3. Select the region containing the lyrics y'all want to copy.

   Y'all tin use the Lyrics tool to select a musical region merely every bit yous would with the Option tool: select one measure by clicking, additional measures past SHIFT-clicking, a screenful past drag-enclosing, or an entire staff by clicking to the left of it.

4. Drag the first selected measure out so that it's superimposed on the beginning target measure. If the first target measure isn't on the screen, scroll to information technology, then CTRL+SHIFT-click it. In either example, the lyrics are copied from the source selection to the target music.

   Finale only places lyrics in the target region on notes that fall on the aforementioned beats as they did in the source region.

To create invisible syllables when typing lyrics

An elision is when two or more syllables are sung under the same notation, such as in a folk song, chant or foreign language. Because Finale advances to the next notation if you enter a space, you lot'll need to add a hard space between the two syllables. You tin can also use this method to place poesy numbers with the showtime syllable.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Lyrics window. The Lyrics window appears. If you prefer, choose Lyrics > Type into Score. Type the lyrics in the usual way, upwardly to the elision.
3. Blazon the first syllable and printing CTRL+SPACEBAR to insert a difficult space. Continue by typing the adjacent syllable, which volition be attached to the syllable before it.

   You can also insert a hard space past choosing Text > Insert Hard Infinite.

4. Complete the remaining lyrics with the same method. When you enter these lyrics using the CTRL-click assignment method (see Lyrics), Finale distributes the syllables yous only created to the respective notes of the tune, just treats the elision as a unmarried syllable.

To create an elision slur between lyrics

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics card appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Lyrics Window. The Lyrics window appears. Type the lyrics in the usual way, up to the elision.
3. Type the first syllable. Without calculation a space, blazon a capital I, then the second syllable.
4. Elevate to select the I. Cull Text > Font. Cull EngraverFontSet and click OK. Complete the remaining lyrics.
5. Click OK. When you enter these lyrics using the CTRL-click assignment method (run into Lyrics), Finale distributes the syllables you only created to the respective notes of the tune, merely treats the elision as a single syllable. A slur will appear between the two syllables.

Positioning and aligning lyrics

To set the baseline (vertical position) for lyrics numerically

You can set the height of the lyric line with respect to its staff either before or afterwards yous've placed your lyrics in the score. Y'all can also ready the baseline (on which the bases of the letters align) independently for each staff in each organization—and for each prepare of lyrics of each type. Finally, you can drag whatever syllable anywhere yous want (run into To move or delete a syllable below). (For information regarding lyric baselines in linked parts, see Baseline Positioning in linked parts.)

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics card appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Adjust Baselines. The Accommodate Baselines dialog box appears.
3. Specify the lyric type and number for which yous desire to set the baselines. Also specify the staff and organisation number, if desired. You specify a staff and organization number by clicking the Prev and Next buttons abreast the Staff and Staff Arrangement boxes. If you just desire to move the baseline for the entire piece at one time, y'all don't demand to adjust the staff or arrangement controls; just click in the Piece text box.
4. Enter the distance you want the baseline to be from the heart line of the staff in the appropriate box or boxes. The eye line of the staff is the zero position. The units are whatever you've selected using Edit > Measurement Units.

   For case, to set the baseline half an inch below the middle line, you'd type –.five (inches) in the Piece box. It'due south a negative number because you're moving the line down. If there were very low melody notes and you lot felt that the baseline in the third system needed to be a quarter inch lower withal, you'd ready the Staff System counter to iii (by clicking the Adjacent button twice), and you'd enter –.25 in the Staff System: iii box. (If you lot e'er want to restore all baselines to their original positions, click Set Piece Offsets to Default Font.)

5. Click OK (or press ENTER).

To set the baseline (vertical position) for lyrics graphically

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Specify Current Lyric to specify the lyric type and number, if you want.
3. Cull Lyrics > Click Assignment or Type Into Score. Motility the Lyric Window out of the way, if necessary. At the left edge of the screen is a row of iv small triangles pointing to the right. They command the baseline for the lyrics. If necessary, click the staff whose lyrics need adjustment.
4. Drag the leftmost triangle upward or downwardly to set the baseline for the entire piece (for the selected lyric type and number). As yous drag it, the other 3 triangles move with it.
5. Elevate the second triangle up or down to set up the baseline for the selected staff only, all the way through the piece (for the selected lyric). As you drag this triangle, the 2 triangles to its correct move with information technology.
6. Drag the third triangle upwards or downwards to set the baseline for this staff, this system merely (for the selected lyric). As yous drag this triangle, the rightmost triangle moves with it. Utilise this third triangle only in Page View (so yous can see the system you're affecting).
7. Drag the rightmost triangle up or down to fix the baseline for the next syllable, before it's entered. This selection is useful when you're entering lyrics with the Type Into Score feature or past Click Assigning one syllable at a time.

To set alignment and justification of syllables globally

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics bill of fare appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Lyric Options. The Certificate Options - Lyrics dialog box appears.
3. Conform the settings nether Syllable Positioning:

   Noteman says: Alignment refers to the positioning of a annotation relative to the syllable. Justification refers to the horizontal position of a lyric syllable relative to the notehead.

   • If you would similar specific alignment and justification settings for give-and-take extensions, select Syllables with Discussion Extensions and ready the alignment and justification settings.
   • If yous would like specific alignment and justification settings for the showtime syllable in your score, select First Syllable in Lyric and set the alignment and justification settings.
   • If yous would like specific alignment and justification settings for the start syllable of every system, select Syllables at Commencement of Organisation and set the alignment and justification settings.
   • Select the alignment and justification settings for the remainder of the syllables in your score using Others.

   The order of the alignment and justification items in this dialog box too betoken club of precedence. For example, if you have a syllable which is the kickoff syllable in the system, just also has a discussion extension, the Syllables with Word Extensions settings will be used instead of the Syllables at Start of System (bold you accept both these items checked).

4. Click OK.

To correct misaligned lyrics

You may discover that your lyrics don't correspond correctly to the melodic notes after CTRL–click-assigning. You may have entered too many syllables, failed to recall a melisma, or skipped a give-and-take. Using the following technique, you tin can shift all syllables by 1 notation to the correct from a selected point.

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics carte du jour appears.
2. Cull Lyrics > Shift Lyrics. The Shift Lyrics dialog box appears.
3. From the Shift Lyrics to The dropdown carte du jour, choose Right or Left. These directions tell you lot which mode Finale will shift lyrics relative to the notes.
4. Under Options, select the appropriate range.
   • Choose Shift Syllables by One Note, to the End of the Lyric to shift every syllable from the one you click to the last one in the piece.
   • Choose Shift Syllables by One Note, to the Adjacent Open up Notation to shift every syllable but as far equally the first notation that doesn't have a syllable attached to it. Subsequent syllables volition remain where they are.
   • Choose Rotate syllables if y'all've created a set of lyrics with more than syllables than at that place are notes to attach them to. Click this option on those rare occasions when you want to supervene upon the syllable on each note with the syllable to its correct or left—but without changing which notes have lyrics (come across the effigy beneath).
5. Click OK (or press ENTER). You return to the document.
6. Shift the syllables as needed:
   • If you specified a right shift, click the note above the commencement syllable you want to movement. The syllable at which you clicked, and subsequent syllables, shift to the correct by 1 tune note, automatically skipping notes, rests, and tied notes. (Yous should click in the staff at the position of the note—not on the note itself.)
   • If you specified a left shift, click in the staff above the notation only before the first syllable you want to motion. The syllable on the following note, and subsequent syllables, shift to the left by i melody notation, automatically skipping notes, rests, and tied notes.

To correct overlapping lyrics

Yous'll oftentimes discover that some of your lyric syllables overlap—or have more space than they need. You lot can use the Music Spacing command (which you normally use for respacing the notes in your music) to correct lyric collisions.

1. Choose Document > Document Options and select Music Spacing. The Certificate Options - Music Spacing dialog box appears.
2. Under Avoid Collision of, ensure that Lyrics is selected.
3. Click OK.
4. Cull the Selection tool .
5. Select the music you lot want to respace. In full general, you'll desire to cull Edit > Select All, so that all staves are highlighted.

   If you select only the lyric staff, for example, you could get unexpected spacing in other staves, considering the Music Spacing command sets the measure widths for all staves according to the spacing of the selected region.

6. Choose Utilities > Music Spacing > Apply Crush Spacing or Apply Note Spacing.

   For a clarification of the differences between the two options, see Certificate Options - Music Spacing. they piece of work equally well in correcting lyric overlaps.

To align syllables at the beginning of measures

Finale's default lyric spacing options adapt long syllables at the beginning of measures by automatically nudging the syllable to the left of the note when advisable and/or shifting the position of the attached note.

1. Choose Lyrics > Adjust Syllables.
2. Right-click a syllable handle and cull Marshal Default to allow syllables to "float" automatically (this is the default setting).

   The post-obit example illustrates the difference between left-aligned, centre-aligned, and default-aligned ("floating").

   

Changing lyric fonts

To set up the font for lyrics globally

This will set the default font for lyrics you lot are about to enter. It will not alter the font for lyrics already entered in the score. Run into likewise Modify Fonts Plug-in.

1. Choose Document > Certificate Options > Fonts. The Document Options - Fonts dialog box appears.
2. From the dropdown menu for lyrics, select the lyric type you desire to change (Verse, Chorus, or Section).
3. Click Ready Font. The Font dialog box appears.
4. Select the type style y'all desire for your lyrics. Nether normal circumstances, Finale scales the blazon size of lyrics proportionally with the piece; if you reduce the music to half size (using the Resize tool), the lyrics also shrink to one-half size.

   If you'd prefer to specify a fixed size for the lyrics, so the text won't vary with the size of the notes, select Fixed Size.

5. Click OK (or press ENTER) twice. Use this method to set the primary font for your lyrics. If in that location are occasional variations within this main font, run into To change fonts inside a lyric beneath.

To modify fonts within a lyric

To gear up the chief font for a lyric, see To gear up the font for lyrics globally above. Utilise the following method for exceptions to the primary font.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics carte du jour appears. If you desire to specify a particular lyric type or number, choose Lyrics > Specify Electric current Lyric.
2. Choose Lyrics > Lyrics window. The Lyrics window appears. If y'all have several lyric sections of the same type, use the dropdown menus to select the ones yous want to change.
3. Select the text whose font yous want to change (so that it's highlighted).
4. Cull Text > Font and select the desired font and click OK.
5. Click OK (or press ENTER) to ostend your settings.

Editing hyphens and word extension underlines

To forestall a hyphen from ending a syllable

Noteman says: Documents created in Finale 2003 or before that contain lyrics retain all hyphen positioning information when converted to a newer Finale format. However, due to possible conflicts with existing hyphens, Smart Hyphens are not active in converted documents by default. Hyphens in documents converted from before Finale versions do non extend over system breaks automatically and ever use a dashed line instead of the lyric font's hyphen graphic symbol. If yous want to actuate Smart Hyphens in an older Finale document, choose Certificate > Document Options, select Lyrics, and select Use Smart Hyphens. Click OK to confirm your settings. This setting applies to new hyphens and existing hyphens already added to the score.

A hyphen (or a space), when typed into the Lyrics window, indicates the end of a lyric syllable. When Finale distributes lyrics automatically into the score (see Lyrics), information technology looks for a hyphen or space every bit its cue to advance to the next melody notation.

The default hyphens are called Smart Hyphens because they automatically extend over organization breaks. Yous can edit the hyphen character, the default space betwixt hyphens, and adjust the default positioning in the hyphens section of Document Options - Lyrics.

In certain situations (melismatic passages, for example), you lot may non want Finale to assume that a hyphen is the end of a syllable.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics window appears.
2. To create a hyphenated word, all of which will be assigned to a single note, agree the ALT key and type 0173 on the numeric keypad instead of a regular hyphen. When these lyrics are click-assigned into the score, the ALT+0173 hyphen will not separate the word into syllables.

To draw give-and-take extension underlines manually

Noteman says: Documents created in Finale version 2003 or earlier that incorporate lyrics retain all word extension positioning data when converted to a newer Finale format. However, due to possible conflicts with existing word extensions, Smart Word Extensions are not active in converted documents by default. If yous desire to activate Smart Word Extensions, select Discussion Extensions in the Document Options - Lyrics dialog box and select Use Smart Word Extensions. Then click OK twice to confirm your settings. Erstwhile word extensions disappear and are replaced with Smart Word Extensions. (Uncheck this option to revert back to the old discussion extensions that existed in a certificate prior to turning Smart Discussion Extensions on).

When a syllable's note is tied over to another note or sustained through several notes (as in a melisma), a common practice is to draw an underline following the syllable to indicate its extension. As you enter lyrics, give-and-take extensionsA reddish underline that is used to point that a syllable is beingness sustained through more than than one note. In Finale, word extensions expand and contract along with the music as you enter boosted lyrics and modify the folio layout. are defined automatically where appropriate, including over organization breaks. A word extension will extend to the next syllable of the same lyric type and number regardless of the baseline difference of the individual syllables. They volition too extend to any syllable of a different type (poetry, section, or chorus) provided information technology lies on the exact aforementioned vertical baseline every bit the previous syllable. Word extensions practice not terminate at the start signal of the next syllable if information technology is of the same type, but a different number (poetry i, verse two) regardless of the next syllable's baseline position.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Edit Give-and-take Extensions.
3. Click nigh the syllable to exist extended. A handle appears at the end of the syllable.
4. Drag the syllable'due south handle to the correct. Equally yous drag, you lot create an underline. To remove the underline, click its handle and press DELETE. To articulate manual positioning, press BACKSPACE.

   Y'all can edit the default visual appearance of Smart Give-and-take Extensions, such as the baseline and starting time from the left or right syllable, in the Discussion Extensions dialog box. Changes made in this dialog box apply to existing word extensions, as well new ones added to the score.

To add word extensions on specific syllables only

Noteman says: If Smart Give-and-take Extensions if turned Off in the Discussion Extensions dialog box, underscore characters volition not convert to word extensions.

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Lyric options.
3. Choose Word Extensions. The Word Extensions dialog box appears.
4. Check Only Create on Lyrics with Underscores (_).
5. Make sure Use Smart Word Extensions is checked.
6. Click OK twice to confirm your settings.
7. Add an underscore ( _ ) after a syllable to define a give-and-take extension either while using Type Into Score, or while entering into the Lyrics window.

To accommodate the position of word extension underlines

1. Choose Document > Document Options and select Lyrics. The Certificate Options - Lyrics dialog box appears.
2. Click Word Extensions. The Word Extensions dialog box appears.
3. Nether Lyric Alignment, enter new values into the Vertical First from Baseline and Horizontal Offset from Syllable text boxes.
   • Vertical Offset from Baseline is the distance between the underline and the baseline (against which the bottoms of the lyric syllables align).
   • Horizontal Outset from Syllable is the distance between the end of the syllable and the kickoff of the underline.

   The units are whatever you've specified nether Edit > Measurement Units.

4. Click OK (or press ENTER).

Numbering lyrics

To number lyrics

Automatic numbering can be added to lyrics (verses/sections/choruses), and the numbers tin be placed either immediately to the left of the first syllable or left-justified according to the leftmost number. The font for the machine-number is defined by the default font for that verse, chorus or section in Document Options - Fonts.

1. Cull the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics window and Lyrics carte appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Auto-Number, and then the type of lyric you would similar to number, Verses, Choruses, or Sections.

   The three lyric types are mostly for labeling/organizational purposes.

3. Choose Certificate > Document Options and select Lyrics.
4. Under Automatic Lyric Numbers, choose the desired option.
   • Select Group under the same annotation to maintain horizontal alignment with different lyrics.
   • Select Continue with outset syllable in lyric to shift the position of the number to wherever the lyrics begins.
5. Click OK (or press ENTER) to confirm your settings.
6. Enter the lyrics. Whether you use Blazon Into Score or Click Consignment, Finale adds automated numbering to your lyrics; subsequent verses/sections/choruses under the same note will be numbered consecutively.

To add poesy numbers to a syllable other than the first

1. Choose the Lyrics tool . The Lyrics menu appears.
2. Choose Lyrics > Adapt Syllables. Handles appear on all the syllables.
3. Right-click the handle of the syllable you would like to number and choose Include Lyric Number. A number appears next to the syllable; subsequent verses/sections/choruses under the same note will be numbered consecutively.

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