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Entering lyrics: Click Assignment

With this method, you’ll enter the complete set of lyrics beforehand in Finale’s text processor. Because the computer doesn’t have to redraw the music to keep up with you (as it did with the Type Into Score method), you’ll find that you can type much faster in this mode.

  1. Click the Lyrics Tool  image\Lyric_Tool.gif. The Lyrics menu appears.
  2. From the Lyrics menu, choose Edit Lyrics. The Edit Lyrics window appears with your complete set of lyrics.

You can edit your lyrics in the Edit Lyrics window just as you would text in any word processor. For example, you can correct mistakes by backspacing over them with the key (Mac: ). You can copy and paste text as you’ve just done, using -C (Mac: -C) to copy selected text and -V (Mac: -V) to paste it. You can also cut selected text, so that it’s removed from the Edit Lyrics window but placed on the Clipboard ready for pasting in another place; the Cut command is -X (Mac: -X).

  1. Click OK. You return to the score.
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