How to Learn Finale 
The remainder of this book contains step-by-step
tutorials. It is best to take them in order, because each tutorial is
more advanced than the one before it.
For some of the tutorials, you’ll be working
on prepared documents that are located in the Tutorials folder within
the Finale folder on your hard disk. In addition to these tutorials, high-quality
sample scores are also included which offer a glimpse of Finale’s capabilities.
Finale itself contains powerful instructional tools: the Status or Message
Bar along the edge of the application window, QuickStart Video Tips, and
the User Manual (Reference and Encyclopedia).
If you don’t read any other tutorials,
do take a look at Tutorial 1a.
- The
Status Bar (Win) or Message Bar (Mac) shows you the name of each tool
you click, and tells you what your next step should be. On Windows, it
also displays a description of each menu or
.
- Finale’s help system provides context-sensitive help. Click the Help button or press F1 (Win) or Help (Mac) in any dialog box to display its corresponding topic in the Finale User Manual. Macintosh users, hold down and drag over a tool to display a more detailed description.
- QuickStart
Video Tips are a series of videos that run on your computer and give you
step-by-step instructions on the use of many of Finale's tools and features.
The Video Tips, which can be accessed through the Help menu, are designed
to enhance and support these tutorials. Feel free to use these Tips at
any time to review any of the procedures outlined in this book.
- The
User Manual is the most powerful and comprehensive of the instructional
tools available to you. Here you will find detailed descriptions of each
of Finale's tools, dialog boxes, and other features, as well as step-by-step
instructions on how to perform any task in Finale. It is highly recommended
that you take a few moments to familiarize yourself with this tool: Select the Help menu, then choose Table of Contents.
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