Tutorial 4: Layout and Printing

Although Finale automatically updates the score layout as you enter music, any measure, staff, system, or page can be resized, dragged or nudged as you see fit. Once you learn a few basic Selection Tool and Page Layout procedures, you’ll see how easy it is to ensure a beautiful and precise layout for any score.

To prepare for this lesson, open the document called “Tutorial 4,” which consists of a barbershop arrangement of “Auld Lang Syne.”

Measure Layout

There are several ways to dictate the arrangement of measures within systems (for example, when you’re rearranging measures to avoid awkward page turns).

The first method is to specify the number of measures per line. Try this using the “Tutorial 4” document you’ve just opened. Make sure you’re in Page View so you can see the effects you’re creating. If you have a small monitor, you may want to scale your view. To do so, go to the View Menu, select Zoom, and choose Fit in Window.

For this example, we’ll distribute measures to 4 per line.

• From the Utilities Menu, choose Fit Measures. The Fit Measures dialog box appears.

• Make sure “Lock Layout with _ Measure(s) per System” is selected as well as “All Measures.”  
• 4 should be selected already. If not, enter 4 after “Lock Layout with...”
• Click OK. Finale re-assigns your music so 4 measures appear on each system. A fourth system is added at the bottom of the page to accommodate this arrangement.

You can also select a region of measures and group them in a system using the “Lock Selected Measures Into One System” command in the Fit Measures dialog box.

When we set four measures per system, Finale added an additional system on the next page to accommodate the final measure. Next, let’s move this orphan measure back to the first page.

• Click the next page arrow at the bottom of the screen to advance to page 2. Notice the single-measure system at the top of the page.

• Click anywhere in the system to select the measure. The system is highlighted.
• Press the up arrow. Finale moves this measure to the previous system on the first page. Similarly, you can click the last measure of a system and press the down arrow to move it to the next system. Try it now. Click measure 7. Press the down arrow to move it to the next system and then press the up arrow to move it back.

With any of the Fit Measures commands, the layout depends on your good judgment. Remember, Finale automatically lays out your music with as many measures as it can fit on a line; you’re free to override its placement decisions, but the result may be measures that are too wide or too crowded.

By locking a specific number of measures on a system you’ve created measure groups, Finale’s system of locking measures within a system (hence the non-printing lock icon ). Be aware that once a measure has been manipulated in this way, the measures are locked into this arrangement, and they won’t be affected by future measure-rearranging commands like Update Layout or Begin a New Staff System. You can remove locked measure groups from the piece by choosing Update Layout from the Edit Menu while pressing , or by selecting the grouped measures with the Selection Tool and choosing Unlock Systems from the Utilities Menu.

Pickup Measures

Let’s turn the first measure of “Auld Lang Syne” into a proper pickup measure. There are several ways to do this, but we’ll show you the easiest. This method changes the first measure in the document into a pickup measure.

• From the Document Menu, choose Pickup Measure. The Pickup Measure dialog box opens, where you can tell Finale how long your pickup lasts. Click the note that corresponds to the sum of the pickup notes. In our example, we have a quarter note.
• Click the quarter note, then click OK. Finale hides the half note rest and the quarter note rest and only displays our pickup notes. Finale even fixes the measure numbers to automatically skip the pickup measure. You may have noticed that the notes are still spaced as though the half note rest were still there. Never fear, we’ll fix the spacing in the next section.

Spacing the Music

As noted earlier in Tutorial 1, Finale is automatically applying professional publisher-standard note spacing to your music as you go along. (This feature can be turned off by deselecting Automatic Music Spacing from the Edit Menu.) Automatic Music Spacing not only spaces the notes, it is designed to avoid the collision of chords, lyrics, and other score elements. In most cases, you will never need to worry about this feature. However, you may encounter instances when the music does not appear to be spaced correctly; usually, the automatic spacing hasn’t been triggered yet. Here, then, are the steps to follow to perform music spacing (it has not yet been performed in this score so you can see the effects):

• Click the Selection Tool  .

• Click just to the left of the top staff, in any staff system. This is a quick way to select an entire staff with one click. You’ll notice that the whole line is highlighted. Because we don’t want to overlook the bass staff while making spacing decisions, we’ll need to select the bass staff, too.
• Hold down the key and click just to the left of the bass staff, in any staff system. Now both staves should be highlighted through the entire piece.
• From the Utilities Menu, choose Apply Music Spacing, then Apply Note Spacing. When Finale’s finished, you might notice that the spacing of music and barlines is much more professional looking. Every measure is exactly as wide as it needs to be, and every note is allotted exactly the right amount of horizontal space. Music spaced in this way is said to have nonlinear spacing, as in published music: A whole note doesn’t get as much horizontal space as four quarter notes—it actually gets much less. For more information about Finale’s three music spacing types, see the User Manual under Music Spacing.

There is one more critical behind-the-scenes function in action here: Update Layout. Again, Finale is configured to perform this function automatically (it can be disabled by deselecting Automatic Update Layout from Program Options-Edit).

Use Time Signature Spacing in the Utilities Menu, Music Spacing submenu, to restore default spacing.

Beat Charts

You just learned how to use the Music Spacing command to neatly space music, lyrics, and accidentals. You’ll recall that the procedure was to select the region whose spacing you want to fix, then choose Music Spacing from the Utilities Menu. (Remember that Finale is configured to do this automatically.)

In using the Music Spacing command, you unlocked a special feature of every measure affected by it: You gave each measure a beat chart. A beat chart is a set of handles that lets you reposition any beat (and the notes that fall on it) in every staff at once.

• Click the Measure Tool  . Each barline in the piece sprouts two stacked handles. You can drag the top one right or left to widen or compress the measure.

When you click the bottom handle, however, its beat chart springs into view.

• Click the bottom handle of measure 5’s ending barline. A beat chart—two rows of square handles—appears above the music. The top row of handles, evenly spaced, show you where the beats would fall if the music were spaced linearly. The bottom row of handles is yours to play with.
• Drag the third lower handle half an inch to the right. When you’re finished, you’ll see that you’ve actually moved the third beat to the right, in every staff. Let’s say you had a many-note glissando for the lead on beat two, you can make room using this technique.
• While pressing , drag the second beat’s bottom handle to the left. When you press while dragging a handle, you also affect all handles to its right.
• Position the cursor between the first two top handles. Double-click. A new handle appears. When you double-click between two upper handles, you create a handle that controls the halfway point between those two handles. In this case, you’ve just created a handle that would control the second 16th note if a 16th note pair were entered on the and of 2.

Keep the power of these beat charts in mind. In general, let the Music Spacing command handle your spacing for you. But when you need to force some extra room into a measure—to make room for a caesura (railroad track) marking, for example, or to create a measure of recitative, beat charts will do the trick.

You’ll usually want to adjust the music on the score so that the systems are evenly spaced on the page from top to bottom, instead of being tightly spaced in the middle of the page. Also, you may decide to indent the first system. You can make these formatting changes using the Page Layout Tool.

The Page Layout Tool

The units of measurement Finale normally uses are inches. You can work in whatever units you feel most comfortable with.

• Windows users, from the Edit Menu, choose Measurement Units; from the submenu, choose Inches (if it’s not already selected). Macintosh users, choose the Finale 2009 Menu, Preferences > Measurement Units. You are familiar with inches and centimeters. You are familiar with inches and centimeters; points, spaces and picas are typographical units (72 points = 1 inch, 12 spaces = 1 inch, and 12 points = 1 pica). An EVPU is an “ENIGMA Virtual Page Unit,” a very small measurement that’s evenly divisible by inches, points, spaces, and picas—there are 288 EVPUs per inch.

(Remember during the following example that you can choose a different view percentage from the Scale View to submenu of the View Menu in order to see more of the music on the page.)

• Click the Page Layout Tool  . Your page of sheet music is instantly covered with a series of horizontal and vertical lines with handles attached. Although this may appear confusing at first, the function of the handles will become clear as we examine the page in depth.

The handles (and their associated lines) control two distinct sets of margins: Page margins, which allow you to determine how much of the page (from side to side and from top to bottom) you will use for the music; and staff system margins, which allow you to indent staff systems, increase the space allotted to systems, and so on. A staff system, or system for short, is one line of music, no matter how many instruments (staves) are in it.

As you've no doubt already guessed, the lines that run to the edges of the page are the currently defined page margins. The rectangles that enclose the three systems of music are the staff system margins. Each system has two handles, one at the upper left corner and one at the lower right corner. To manipulate any margin, simply drag its handle. You can even drag-enclose margin handles or select all margin handles with -A (Mac: -A). To move the entire system, creating more space between systems for a choreographer’s note or a title, simply click on the system and drag it into place.

The page currently appears based on Finale’s default layout settings. You might decide there is some extra space above the top system, we’ll move the music higher on the page.

• Click the top left handle of the first system and drag down about an inch, as shown: Notice you can also drag this handle left or right to adjust the horizontal position of the left system margin. Once you’ve selected the handle you can also use the down arrow to nudge the system margin with more precision.

The spacing on the page remains the same, but now there is room to move the system up (before colliding with the top page margin). When you do, subsequent systems will reposition uniformly.

For precise positioning, from the Page Layout Menu, choose Systems and then Edit Margins. Here, you can specify spacing numerically. You will notice the values here change as you drag system margin handles.

• Click anywhere in the top system and drag up and to the right. Keep dragging as far up and to the right as possible. You are only able to move the system until it lies against the right and top page margins. Notice all the systems on the page moved up accordingly.

Finale can also automatically space the systems evenly down the page with the Space Systems Evenly command. To space the systems, Finale adjusts the Distance Between Systems, without changing the system margins. Because we want to make sure our title doesn’t get covered up when we space the systems later, we’ll make the top system margin bigger to include the title.

• From the Page Layout Menu, choose Space Systems Evenly. In the Space Systems Evenly dialog box, you can tell Finale which pages to space and when to skip pages (such as pages only two systems full). The default settings are fine, so just click OK.

-click (Mac: -click) and drag to move systems independently.

Voila! All of your systems are spaced evenly between the top and bottom margins of the page.

Page Breaks

What if we were creating a medley of barbershop arrangements? You could create each song as a separate file, or just insert a page break to start the next song at the top of a new page. First, we’ll need to add some measures to the end of the piece.

• Click on the Measure Tool  . From the Measure Menu, choose Add. Type 25 into the dialog box. Click OK. Scroll to page 2. Now we have some extra systems for experimenting.

• Click the Page Layout Tool  . Handles appear on the page and system margins.

• Click on (a measure in) system 5. The handle should appear filled in. You’ve just selected the system.
• From the Page Layout Menu, choose Insert Page Break. Finale places the system at the top of a new page. You’ll also see a Page Break icon by the system.

Inserting or Deleting Systems

Let’s say we just discovered the arranger inserted an introduction to our song, after all of our careful layout. No problem!

• Scroll back to page 1. Click system 1 to select it. From the Page Layout Menu, choose Insert Staff Systems. Finale opens the Insert Staff Systems dialog box. Here you can specify how many systems to insert, how many measures, where to insert the system and whether to recalculate the even spacing of the systems.
• Click in the Insert Systems text box and enter 2. Uncheck Space Systems Evenly then click OK. Finale adds a system with the same margins as the old system 1. Feel free to edit these margins by dragging the handles as we did previously.
• Click on the system handle for the first system, then shift-click on the system handle for the second system. Both systems are now selected and should have a filled square.
• From the Page Layout Menu, choose Delete Staff Systems.   

The Resize Tool

You’ve already experimented with the Zoom command in the View Menu. This command—and the options on its submenu—allow you to “zoom in” to and “zoom out” from your document, magnifying or reducing your view of it. During the entire process, however, the actual size of the music—the printed image—remains precisely the same.

The Resize Tool, however, can resize the music itself.

For this example, use the document called “Tutorial 4” that you’ve been working on to this point and scroll to page 1.

• Click the Resize Tool  . The amount of music to be resized depends on where you click on the screen.
• Click a notehead. The Resize Notehead dialog box appears. The limits of the Resize Tool are 10% to 999%.

• Type 200 and click OK. You’ve just doubled the size of the notehead (or made it 200% of its original size). To restore it, you must click precisely at the spot where the normal size notehead was. The Resize Notehead dialog box reappears; type 100 and click OK. (Or, select Undo from the Edit Menu.)

The reduction and enlargement effects of this tool are not cumulative. If you make a note half its size (50%) and then decide to reduce it again by half, you would type 25% in the Resize Notehead dialog box the second time, not 50%.

• Scroll to measure 5. Click the stem of the top eighth note in the top staff. The Resize Note dialog box appears, but this time you’re resizing the entire note group—in other words, a chord or a series of beamed notes. When you enlarge or reduce an entry group, any lyric or dynamic attached to it also grows or shrinks.
• Type 50 and click OK. You’ve just created cue notes.

These are the only two powers of the Resize Tool in Scroll View.

• Press the Home key. Or, scroll to the top left of the page.
• Click to the left of the top staff. The Resize Staff dialog box appears, this time asking how much to resize the staff
• Type 80 and click OK. You’ve just created a cue (or rehearsal) staff at 80% of the normal staff size.
• Click between the two staves to the left of a system. When the Resize Staff System dialog box appears this time, there are two additional options—Hold Margins and Resize Vertical Space.

Finale is asking whether or not it should maintain the system margins as it resizes the music. If you don’t select Hold Margins as you reduce the music, for example, the system will shrink in both dimensions, thus reducing its width. If you do select Hold Margins, Finale will hold the system at its current margin-to-margin width but reduce the music in it so that more measures fit on the line.

To resize a system using Resize Staff System, you must have more than one staff; otherwise, use Resize Staff.

Select Hold Margins if you want the systems on the page to maintain their margin-to-margin width (above, left). Otherwise, Finale reduces the music proportionally in both dimensions (right).

Finale also wants to know whether it should maintain the amount of blank space between this system and the next one, or whether you’re reducing that distance as well. Select Resize Vertical Space if you want to tighten up the space between this system and the next.

• For Resize System,Type 75. Select Hold Margins and Resize Vertical Space (if they’re not already selected). Click on System 1 through 1. Click OK. Now, for practice, try removing an enlargement or reduction.
• Click between two staves to the left of the first system. For Resize System, enter 100%, and click OK. The system is back to its original size.
• So far you’ve seen Finale resize a single note, a note group, a single staff, and an entire system. Often, however, you’ll want to reduce all the music at once, so that you can fit the music on fewer pages.
• Click the upper-left corner of the page. The Resize Page dialog box appears.
• Type 75. Click OK.

NOTE: If you use the Resize Tool on a system or a page, as you’ve just done, you change the measure widths. Whenever you perform any operation in Finale that changes the measure widths, you must tell Finale to compensate by rearranging the layout of measures. As noted previously, Finale performs an Automatic Update Layout for you; if you have decided to turn this feature off, you'll need to do it manually now.

• From the Edit Menu, choose Update Layout. Only now does Finale redistribute the measures. If your purpose in reducing the size of the music was to fit more music on fewer pages, you won’t see the results until you choose Update Layout.

The Text Tool

The Text Tool is used to enter text onto a single page or multiple pages. Titles, subtitles, composer credits, page numbers, copyright notices, and dates are good examples.

For best results, don’t use the Text Tool for musical text like Adagio and rehearsal letters. Use the Expression Tool for these purposes (see Tutorial 3).

If you create a document using the Document Setup Wizard, you will be prompted for a title. For this tutorial document, we have provided you with a dummy title, “Title.” The word “Title” has brackets around it, to tell you it’s special, a text insert. We’ll talk more about text inserts later in this tutorial.

Now, you’ll add a subtitle to “Auld Lang Syne.”

• Press the Home key on your computer keyboard. In Page View, Home Position shifts the view to the upper-left corner of the page you’re working on. (In Scroll View, it returns you to measure 1.)
• Click the Text Tool  . The Text Menu appears, and the title, “Auld Lang Syne,” sprouts a small square handle.

• Double-click the title’s handle. An editing frame appears around the text, and a blinking cursor appears within the frame. “Auld Lang Syne” is enclosed in a gray box which indicates this is a “Text Insert.” In other words, this text is defined elsewhere so it can be replicated easily. This would be the case if this score were created with the Setup Wizard.
• From the File Menu, choose File Info. If you wanted to change the Title Text (or the Composer or Copyright), you would do it here.
• Enter “Times Gone By” in the Subtitle text box.  
• Click OK. The File Info dialog box disappears and the blinking cursor is still to the left of our title.
• Press the right arrow key. The cursor moves to the right of the title text insert.
• Press Return. The cursor moves to the next line. Now set the font size.
• From the Text Menu, choose Size, and then choose the desired font size. For a subtitle, a 10- or 12-point size should work well. You can also set the typeface by selecting the text and choosing a typeface from the Font dialog box or submenu of the Text Menu.
• From the Text Menu, choose Inserts, then Subtitle. “Times Gone By” appears beneath the title. If you want to change the typeface, highlight the new text and choose a new typeface from the Font submenu of the Text Menu. (The title is in Arial 18-point bold). If you want to change the size or style (e.g., bold) of the text, you can make your selection from the appropriate submenu of the Text Menu. Now, change the justification so the subtitle is centered beneath the title.
• From the Text Menu, choose Justification and then Center. The commands in this submenu allow you to specify how you want your text aligned in the text box.
• Select Center Horizontally. Finale has centered your subtitle on the page. You can also manually adjust the position of any text block by dragging its handle.

(If the text block shows an editing frame, click anywhere on the page to see its handle.) You might want to adjust the vertical position of your subtitle. To delete a text block, click its handle and press Delete.

In addition to entering titles and special instructions to players, the Text Tool can also be used to place page numbers into your score, as well as the document name, current date, and current time (important features if you plan to update and reprint your score at some future time). Finale provides several useful keyboard shortcuts for many of these features; let’s explore some of them here.

Note that page numbers are already assigned (starting on page 2) when you start a new score using the Setup Wizard or a template.

• Double-click in the bottom right corner of the page. An editing frame appears. -click (Mac:
• Type “Page”, type a space, then press -p (Mac: )--P. This keyboard shortcut instructs Finale to place a page number insert at the current cursor position. (You could also select Page Number from the Inserts submenu of the Text Menu.) The number 1 appears, surrounded by a box. The box indicates that this number is not ordinary text, but a dynamic insert, meaning that if you created this insert on the second page of your score, it would display the number 2 instead of the number 1. See Text Tool in the User Manual for a further discussion of inserts.
• Press --] (Mac: -]) (right bracket). This keyboard shortcut instructs Finale to align the text block with the right margin of the page. (You could also select Right from the Placement submenu of the Text Menu.) You have now successfully entered a page number for your score. We can quickly instruct Finale to display your page number on every subsequent page, without having to manually enter a different page number every time.
• From the Text Menu, choose Frame Attributes. In the Frame Attributes box, you can determine many aspects of how to display your text block. You could display the page number on the outer corner of left and right pages. We’ll leave the position where it is, but attach the page number to every page in the score.
• In the Attach to area, click on the word Single Page to drop down a list of choices. Select All Pages, then click OK. Scroll through the pages to see that the correct page number appears on each page.

For a further discussion of keyboard shortcuts and the Text Tool in general, see the User Manual topics relating to the Text Tool.

If you’re satisfied with your work, save it by choosing Save from the File Menu.

• From the File Menu, choose Print, and click OK in the dialog box that appears. In a moment, your printer should begin to print your score. Read the last section of this tutorial for some hints on printing.

The Graphics Tool

In addition to adding text to your document, you may also wish to include a graphic element (a company logo for example) which has been created in a graphics program. Or, in a totally different vein, you may wish to export a Finale-generated musical example into a word processing application. Both the importing and exporting of graphics is performed with the Graphics Tool.

Let’s start by exporting an example of our piece.

• Press the Home key or use the horizontal and vertical scroll bars to navigate the upper left of the page.  
• From the View Menu, choose Zoom and specify 100%.  
• For Windows, click on the Window Menu and choose Advanced Tools Palette. Another palette appears docked to the top of the window.
• Select the Graphics tool  .  

• Double-click and drag-enclose the pickup measure of Auld Lang Syne: Place the mouse pointer up and to the left of the first measure. Double-click the mouse, keeping the button pressed down after the second click, then drag the mouse down and to the right until a diagonal rectangle has enclosed the pickup measure on the screen: now release the mouse button (the dotted outline should remain on the screen).

When you selected the Graphics Tool, a Graphics Menu appeared towards the right side of the menu bar at the top of your screen.

• From the Graphics Menu, select Export Selection. (Note: if Export Selection is grayed out, you haven't successfully drag-enclosed)

The Export Selection dialog box allows you to determine what graphics file format you wish to export. The decision of which format you choose will be based on what kind of printer you have (an EPS file will work properly ONLY with PostScript printers) as well as what file formats are accepted by the word processing or desktop publishing application you wish to bring the Finale example into.

• Next to Type, choose TIFF from the drop-down list. (This file type will work with any printer and is generally cross-platform.)
• The next item in the dialog box refers to which pages you wish to export. Since we chose Export Selection from the Graphics Menu, and not Export pages, this is not applicable to our example, but keep in mind that you could export entire pages without needing to drag-enclose the page.
• Under File Names, select “Prompt for each name” (if it’s not already selected). This instructs Finale to ask us what we’ll want to name our file. You’d choose Generate Names if you wanted Finale to generate a file name automatically.

Postscript Options are only applicable to EPS files, so these items are grayed out because we chose TIFF as our file type.

• Next to Resolution choose 300 from the drop-down list. You typically would want to choose a resolution which matches the resolution of your printer: for example, if you have a 600 dpi printer, you’d want to choose 600. If you're not sure of your printer's resolution, 300 is a good guess. If you choose a resolution higher than your printer’s capabilities, the resulting file will be larger than necessary, and this could cause complications when printing. A resolution less than that of your printer’s capabilities will simply result in a more jagged printout. Note that this option is not available if you chose EPS as your file type.
• Click OK. The Save TIFF dialog box will appear, allowing you to name your file and determine where it will be located.

You’ll want to remember where you’ve saved this file for future reference.

• Make sure your Finale 2009 folder is specified. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use the default Finale directory; if you have changed this folder name (or are using a different version of Finale) please replace references to Finale 2009 throughout this tutorial with the name of your Finale folder.
• Enter “tut4picture” in the File Name field, and click Save. This file can now be imported into any desktop publishing or word processing application. You will want to look in your specific desktop publishing or word processing manual for the exact steps for importing a graphic: typically this is referred to by the terms Place or Insert.
• Now that you’ve created a TIFF file, we’ll import the same file back into Finale. While importing Finale examples into Finale is not necessarily something you’d commonly do, the procedure would be the same if you were importing any other type of graphic like a company logo or letterhead.
• Click anywhere on the screen to remove your previous selection.
• From the Graphics Menu, choose Place Graphic. (you could also double-click on the document window—in Page View—where you'd like the graphic to appear).

The Place Graphic dialog box is where you specify the graphic item you wish to import: in this tutorial we'll use the file you saved moments ago.

If your Finale 2009 folder is not already chosen, select it now.

• Click on tut4picture once to select it, then click the Open button. At the bottom, for File Type, be sure .TIF is selected.

Since you chose Place Graphic rather than double-clicking where you wanted the graphic to appear, Finale is awaiting instruction for placement of the graphic.

• Place the cursor where you want the upper left-hand corner of the graphic to appear and click the mouse. Your graphic will appear. You can click on the graphic to drag it elsewhere or drag one of the handles to scale it horizontally or vertically.

For more information, see the Graphics Tool in the User Manual.

Printing Basics

There are essentially two kinds of printers that work with Finale: PostScript-equipped printers, suitable for professional publishing; and non-PostScript printers, including inkjet and bubblejet printers.

Finale’s output truly shines when you print on a PostScript printer. PostScript is a page-description language spoken by computers and printers, just as MIDI is a language spoken by computers and MIDI keyboards. (If you want truly typeset-quality printing, you can take your Finale files on a disk to an output shop—something like a copy shop/graphics service bereau—and have it printed on a Linotronic imagesetter, a very expensive PostScript machine that creates published-quality printouts.)

Just as A, B, and C are characters in a standard text font, notes and musical symbols are characters in Finale’s music font, called Maestro. Maestro, and the other fonts that with Finale, are provided as Postscript and TrueType fonts.

All text and musical symbols should look outstanding at any size. However, when you print at reduced sizes, a non-PostScript printer produces unevenly spaced staff lines, slightly “stairstepped” eighth-note beams, or somewhat jagged slurs (because these lines and shapes are actually graphics and not font items).

• From the File Menu, choose Print and click OK in the dialog box that appears. In a moment, your printer should begin to print your score.

When You’re Ready to Continue

You’ve learned some very important concepts in this tutorial. In fact, these techniques and principles constitute much of the editing work you’ll need to do in Finale. Here’s a quick review of what you’ve covered, in order:

1. Use the Measure Tool and Selection Edit Tool to arrange measures.
2. Use the Music Spacing command to space and align notes, avoid collisions of lyrics and accidentals, and set ideal measure widths.
3. Especially after using the Music Spacing command, it’s important to choose Update Layout from the Edit Menu, so you can see what the final layout will be. You should get in the habit of updating the layout just before printing—so that you never get unexpected results when you print.
4. Use the Page Layout Tool to adjust the spacing of all systems on the page.
5. Use the Text Tool to add titles, composer credits, copyright notices, and so on.
6. Use the Graphics Tool to Import/Export Graphics.

If you’ve had enough for this session, choose Exit (Mac: Quit) from the File Menu. If you want to go on, close the document you have open.