Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Getting Started -- Before You Begin -- Registering Finale -- Your Version of Finale -- Your Finale Package -- Your Finale 2005 Power! Online Resource -- Other Resources -- Installation and MIDI Setup -- Installation -- MIDI Setup -- Getting Around in Finale -- A Tool-Based Program -- The Menus -- Basic Finale Vocabulary -- Scroll View -- Page View -- Display Colors -- Navigation Tools -- Measurement Units -- Document and Program Options -- File Types -- Finale Files (.MUS) -- Enigma Transportable Files (.ETF) -- Template Files (.FTM) -- MIDI Files (.MID) -- Library Files (.LIB) -- Lesson Files (.LSN) -- SmartMusic Accompaniment Files (.SMP) -- Finale Performance Assessment Files (.FPA) -- 2 Beginning a New Score -- Opening a New Document -- Starting a Score with the Document Setup Wizard -- New Default Document -- Document from Template -- Document without Libraries -- Exercise Wizard -- Other New Document Types -- Customize Your Document -- Add, Remove, or Insert Measures -- Changing the Key Signature -- Changing or Hiding the Time Signature -- Changing or Entering a Staff Name -- Configuring a Staff for a Transposing Instrument -- Changing the Clef -- Changing the Tempo Marking -- Adding or Removing a Pickup Measure -- Showing or Hiding Measure Numbers -- Define a Staff for Playback with the Instrument List -- Enter and Modify Text (Title, Composer, Copyright) -- Entering Text Blocks -- Editing a Text Block -- Page Numbers -- Other Text Tool Tricks -- Introduction to the Mass Edit Tool -- Selecting Regions -- Copy and Clear Music -- Introduction to Page Layout -- Page Layout Icons and Margins -- Editing Staff and System Spacing -- Moving Measures across Systems -- Resizing a Page -- Redefining Pages and Page Format for Score -- Page Size, Orientation, and Printing.

3 Basic Note Entry, Articulations, and Expressions -- The Simple Entry Tool -- Entering Notes in Simple Entry with a Mouse -- Editing Notes in Simple Entry -- Entering Notes in Simple Entry with Your Computer Keyboard -- Entering More Than One Voice-Layers -- Entering Notes and Rests with Speedy Entry -- Navigation in Speedy Entry -- Speedy Entry without a MIDI Keyboard -- Speedy Entry with a MIDI Keyboard -- Entering Articulations -- Basic Articulation Entry -- Metatools -- Programming a Metatool -- Entering an Articulation on Several Notes at Once -- Adding New Articulations to the Library -- Editing Articulations -- Using Articulations from Other Documents -- Articulation Placement -- Defining Articulations for Playback -- Copying Articulations within Your Score -- Automatically Copy Articulations to Similar Rhythmic Passages -- Entering Expressions -- Basic Expression Entry -- Note Expressions -- Measure Expressions -- Metatools -- Programming an Expression Metatool -- Creating a Text Expression -- Editing and Creating Similar Text Expressions -- Enclosing an Expression -- Creating a Shape Expression -- Creating Your Own Custom Shape -- Aligning and Positioning Expressions -- Defining an Expression for Playback -- Using Expressions from Other Documents -- Creating a Simple Arrangement -- 4 Advanced Note Entry, Chords, and Lyrics -- Real-Time Entry: HyperScribe -- Playing into the Score along with a Metronome Click -- Playing into the Score while Tapping the Tempo -- Recording into Two Staves at Once -- Using HyperScribe with a MIDI Guitar -- Playback -- Transcription Mode -- MicNotator -- The Auto-Dynamic Placement Plug-In -- Working with Chord Symbols -- Entering Chord Symbols -- Creating and Editing Chord Suffixes -- Changing Chord Fonts -- Chord Metatools -- Chord Positioning -- Fretboard Diagrams.

Transferring Custom Chord Libraries between Documents -- Entering Lyrics -- Type Lyrics into the Score -- Click Assignment -- Setting or Changing the Font for Lyrics -- Positioning Lyrics -- Editing Lyrics -- Beam to Lyrics -- Extract Lyrics Plug-In -- Rhymer -- Creating a Lead Sheet -- 5 Clefs, Key Signatures, and Time Signatures -- Working with Clefs -- Changing the Clef at the Beginning of a Measure -- Entering Mid-Measure Clefs -- Clef Metatools -- Clef Spacing and Placement -- Showing or Hiding Clefs and Courtesy Clefs -- Creating a Custom Clef (the Clef Designer) -- Transferring Custom Clefs between Documents -- Key Signatures -- Entering and Changing the Key Signature -- Spacing Key Signatures -- Showing or Hiding a Key Signature in Staves and Measures -- Showing or Hiding Courtesy Key Signatures -- Outgoing Key Signatures -- Nonstandard Key Signatures -- Time Signatures -- Entering and Changing the Time Signature -- Spacing Time Signatures -- Showing or Hiding Time Signatures in Staves or Measures -- Showing or Hiding Courtesy Time Signatures -- Multiple Time Signatures -- Large Time Signatures Placed above the Staff -- Pickup Measures within a Score -- Isorhythmic Notation -- 6 Slurs, Hairpins, Other Smart Shapes, and Repeats -- Introduction to Smart Shapes -- General Smart Shape Editing -- The Smart Shape Context Menu -- Slurs -- Engraver Slurs -- Hairpins (Crescendos and Decrescendos) -- Other Smart Shapes -- Trills and Trill Extensions -- Ottavas (8va/8vb) and 15va/15vb -- Glissandi and Tab Slides -- Bend Hats and Guitar Bends -- Brackets and Lines -- Custom Smart Shapes -- Creating Custom Smart Shapes -- Copying Smart Shapes -- Automatically Copy Smart Shapes to Rhythmically Identical Passages -- Defining Repeats -- Basic Repeat Creation and Editing -- DS al Coda/Fine -- Creating Text Repeats -- Playback.

7 Creating and Working with Multiple-Staff Scores -- Working with Multiple Staves -- Adding, Removing, and Positioning Staves -- Working with Barlines -- Customizing Staff Viewing: Staff Sets -- Staff Groups -- Adding Groups -- Removing Barlines between Staves -- Expressions and Text Repeats in Multiple-Stave Documents -- Assigning Measure Expressions -- Assigning Measure Expressions to Specific Staves Using Staff Lists -- Assigning Text Repeats and Repeat Endings to Specific Staves -- Measure Expression Positioning -- Copying Measure Expressions -- Optimization -- Removing Empty Staves in a System -- Individual Staff Spacing -- Groups in Optimized Systems -- Removing Optimization -- Other Tricks for Multiple-Stave Scores -- Selecting Specific Playback Staves -- Viewing Several Regions of Your Score on the Screen -- Faster Redraw -- Adding Cue Notes Automatically -- Global Staff Attributes Plug-In -- Generating a Piano Reduction Automatically -- Customizing the Document Setup Wizard -- 8 Alternate Notation, Staff Styles, and Guitar Tablature -- Staff Setup for Slash, Rhythmic,and Other Notation Styles -- Slash and Rhythmic Notation -- Blank Notation -- Applying Staff Attributes to Part of a Staff Only: Staff Styles -- Applying a Staff Style -- Defining a New Staff Style -- Viewing Staff Styles -- Tablature, Percussion, and Other Notation Styles -- Percussion -- Note Shapes -- Guitar Notation and Tablature -- Setting up a Tablature Staff -- Entering Tablature -- Adding Tablature Markings -- Editing TAB Staves -- Creating a Guitar Part with TAB -- 9 Editing Your Music -- Copying and Clearing Music -- Methods of Copying -- Clearing Items -- Changing Music -- Changing Notes: Search and Replace -- Changing Entry Items En Mass -- Changing Note Durations and Appearance -- Transposing -- Music Spacing -- Automatic Music Spacing and Music Spacing Libraries.

Updating the Layout -- Spacing with the Mass Edit Tool -- Spacing Notes Individually -- The Beat Chart and Spacing with the Measure Tool -- Changing and Managing Fonts -- Changing Your Music Font -- Swapping and Checking Fonts -- 10 Fine Tuning: the Details -- Alignment and Positioning Techniques -- The Selection Tool -- Rulers and Margins -- Grids and Guides -- Positioning Rests -- Editing Beams -- Beaming Patterns and Time Signatures -- Rebeaming a Selected Region -- Editing Beams Individually -- Patterson Beams Plug-In -- Editing Stems -- Stem Connections -- Editing Stems for a Selected Region -- Editing Stems Individually -- Editing Notes and Noteheads -- The Edit Frame Dialog Box -- Editing Noteheads and Note Positioning with the Special Tools -- Editing Accidentals -- Changing the Default Enharmonic Spelling -- Positioning Accidentals Individually -- Editing Augmentation Dots and Ties -- Editing Dots -- Adding and Editing Ties -- 11 Measure Numbers, Graphics, Part Extraction, and Printing -- Measure Numbers -- Editing Measure Numbers in the Score -- Creating and Editing Measure Number Regions -- Working with Graphics -- Exporting a Graphic -- Importing a Graphic -- Page Layout -- Editing the Overall Page Format for Your Score or Extracted Parts -- Optimizing Large Scores -- Cutaway Scores -- Customizing Systems and Pages -- Extracting Parts -- Editing Extracted Parts -- Special Part Extraction -- Printing Techniques -- Printing Two-Up -- Fitting a Score on Two Pages: Tile Pages -- Batch Printing and Booklets -- 12 Tricks for Specific Projects and Composing with Finale -- Tricks for Specific Projects -- Cross Staff Notation and Tricks for Piano Scores -- Figured Bass -- Chant -- Mensurstriche Notation -- Handbells -- Tremolos -- Harmonics -- Cadenzas -- Orchestration Tools -- Explode Music -- Implode Music -- The Piano Reduction Plug-In.

The Check Range Plug-In.