Using libraries

Suppose you’re finished with your brass quartet. Along the way you’ve created a number of textual expressions—con sordino, senza sordino, and rehearsal marks, among others. It might save you time later if you save them in a file of their own, ready to be loaded into any other piece that might require them. As mentioned earlier in this tutorial, these sets of symbols are stored in separate files called libraries.

1. From the File menu, choose Save Library. The Save Library dialog box appears, asking which element of this Finale file you want to store separately.

Libraries are saved with every Document Style. Load libraries and save a file as a Document Style (into the Finale 2010/Document Styles folder) to use those libraries in future new documents begun with the Setup Wizard.

2. Click Expressions, then click OK. You’ve told Finale that you want to save the new expressions, as opposed to, for instance, new chord symbol suffixes, which would be stored in a separate library. As you become more familiar with Finale, you may find yourself wanting to save these other types of libraries; the basic procedure is the same. You’re now asked to name this library.
3. Type Brass Expressions and click Save. The next time you need these markings, open the document in which you want to use them. From the File menu, choose Load Library, and double-click Brass Expressions in the list box that appears. Thereafter, when you use the Expression Tool, you’ll see the imported markings in the Expression Selection dialog box, ready to use.

After you quit Finale, you may want to move the Brass Expressions library into the Libraries folder (Finale 2010/Libraries) so you can find it easily the next time you want it.

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