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To clone lyrics

  1. Click the Lyrics tool  image\Lyric_Tool.gif. The Lyrics menu appears.
  2. Choose Lyrics > Clone Lyric.
  3. Select the region whose lyrics you want to copy. You use the Lyrics tool to select a musical region just as you would with the Selection tool: select one measure by clicking, additional measures by SHIFT-clicking, a screenful by drag-enclosing, or an entire staff by clicking to the left of it.
  4. Drag the first selected measure so that it’s superimposed on the first target measure. If the first target measure isn’t on the screen, scroll to it, and then CTRL+SHIFT-click it. In either case, the lyrics are copied from the source selection to the target music. Note that Finale will only place lyrics in the target region on notes that fall on the same beats as they did in the source region.

 

 

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