Welcome to Finale NotePad!

All of NotePad's documentation resources are at your fingertips. Notice the following volumes in the Table of Contents to your left:

• Tutorials. These introduce you to how NotePad works so you can get up and running right away.
• Reference. This includes a detailed description of each of NotePad's commands.
• Encyclopedia. This "how to" resource is arranged alphabetically and by musical topic. Anything you don't find in the tutorials will be explained here.

Use  the Index, Search, and Browse Sequence buttons to look through the entire contents of the NotePad help. See How to use the NotePad User Manual for details.

Upgrading users

For a list of interface changes since NotePad 2008, see NotePad 2009 Interface Changes.

For a list of new NotePad 2009 features, see What's New.

Other resources

Visit http://finalemusic.com/support.aspx to view the Knowledge Base and access additional help.

Visit http://forum.makemusic.com to interact with the Finale community on our user forums.