Lyrics tool

Noteman says: See Adding lyrics for a step-by-step tutorial overview.

This tool lets you create, edit, and move lyrics in your score. You can create many different sets of lyrics (which you might use, for example, in a hymn with several verses); you can move the baselineAn imaginary line used to align the bottom edge of font characters. Finale displays arrows that control the baseline positioning for lyrics and chords. (the imaginary line upon which the bottoms of the words align) up or down independently for each set of lyrics. When you click this tool, the Lyrics menu appears; it contains all the commands you need to create lyrics in your score. See Lyrics.

Related articles:

• Chant notation
• Choral music
• Chord symbols
• Figured bass
• Harmonic analysis
• Import text from another application
• Lead sheets
• Lyrics
• Melismas
• Reducing/Enlarging
• Text

Work faster with:

• Contextual menus
• Keyboard shortcuts and special mouse clicks