Document Styles

Reusing score settings for house styles.

As mentioned earlier in this tutorial, Finale allows you to reuse document settings from any existing document by designating it as it as a Document Style. A Document Style is basically a model document who’s settings can be inherited by new scores created with the Setup Wizard. When you designate a file as a Document Style, you are telling Finale you would like to use its articulations, expressions, fonts, staff lists, score lists, staff styles, page layout and other document options and libraries along side the instrumentation and other settings you define in the Setup Wizard.

Note. See Document Styles for more information.

Creating a new Document Style is as easy as saving a file with the desired libraries and document settings to the C:/Program Files/Finale 2012/Music Files/Document Styles folder. The next time you open the Setup Wizard, the file will be listed as a document style.

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