To create extra room at the top of the page

Depending on the format of your piece, you may want the music on the first page to begin slightly lower on the page to allow room for a title space.

1. Scroll to the beginning of the piece. Click the Page Layout Tool  . Finale displays the systems on the first page, representing each as a rectangle with handles at the upper-left and lower-right.
2. Click in the middle of the first staff system and drag it downwards. When you drag the top system down, all subsequent systems move down on the page as well. If you want more precision, try this: Choose Edit Margins from the Systems submenu of the Page Layout menu. Click the top system’s handle, and then enter a larger value in the topmost text box at the right side of the screen. These numbers represent the system margins.
3. Click the upper left handle of the first staff system and drag it upwards until it overlaps the top page margin. If you later use Space Systems Evenly, Finale will adjust the Distance Between Systems value. Because we don’t want the space for the title to be considered in this spacing, we needed to adjust the top margin of the system.

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