Note. View the Clicking-in lyrics QuickStart Video for an overview.
- Click the Lyrics tool
. The Lyrics window and Lyrics menu
appear.
- From the Lyrics menu, choose Click Assignment, or click
in the Lyrics window.
- In the Lyrics window, click to the left of the first syllable you want to enter. A blinking cursor appears to the left of the syllable. If the first syllable you would like to enter is the first one listed in the text box you can skip this step.
- To place one syllable at a time,
click the first melody note. You must click on the staff at the
position of the note—not necessarily on the note itself. When you click,
the next syllable in the Lyrics window becomes highlighted, indicating the next syllable in queue.
Note: you must have the layer in which the notes are placed active for
lyrics to be attached. (Also, if you want to attach lyrics to notes in
Voice two, hold down the shift key, then click on the note.)
- If you want to assign all the lyrics at once,
click the first melody note while pressing CTRL.
This technique, called CONTROL-Click-Assigning, tells Finale
to assign each of the syllables, one after another, to consecutive melody
notes, automatically skipping rests, tied notes, and notes in different
layers and voices. If any syllables are assigned to the wrong notes, see
To correct
misaligned lyrics.
You have to repeat this process for each
Verse, Chorus, or Section. If you have a second verse, for example, simply
scroll back to its beginning spot, click the up button next to Verse
1, and CONTROL-click-assign
again.
If you wish, you can move the next syllable to be assigned (the "on-deck" syllable) by highlighting it, placing the cursor next to it, or selected a series of lyrics with the desired word first. If you make a mistake, when you Undo the assignment, the "on-deck" syllable will automatically 'back up' to allow you to correctly re-assign it.
