How to Learn Finale

The remainder of this book contains step-by-step tutorials. It is best to take them in order, because each tutorial is more advanced than the one before it.

For some of the tutorials, you’ll be working on prepared documents that are located in the Tutorials folder within the Finale folder on your hard disk. In addition to these tutorials, high-quality sample scores are also included which offer a glimpse of Finale’s capabilities. Finale itself contains powerful instructional tools: the Status or Message Bar along the edge of the application window, QuickStart Video Tips, and the User Manual (Reference and Encyclopedia).

If you don’t read any other tutorials, do take a look at Tutorial 1a.

• The Status Bar (Win) or Message Bar (Mac) shows you the name of each tool you click, and tells you what your next step should be. On Windows, it also displays a description of each menu or .
• Finale’s help system provides context-sensitive help. Click the Help button or press F1 (Win) or Help (Mac) in any dialog box to display its corresponding topic in the Finale User Manual. Macintosh users, hold down and drag over a tool to display a more detailed description.
• QuickStart Video Tips are a series of videos that run on your computer and give you step-by-step instructions on the use of many of Finale's tools and features. The Video Tips, which can be accessed through the Help menu, are designed to enhance and support these tutorials. Feel free to use these Tips at any time to review any of the procedures outlined in this book.
• The User Manual is the most powerful and comprehensive of the instructional tools available to you. Here you will find detailed descriptions of each of Finale's tools, dialog boxes, and other features, as well as step-by-step instructions on how to perform any task in Finale. It is highly recommended that you take a few moments to familiarize yourself with this tool: Select the Help menu, then choose Table of Contents.

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