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on a mac system 10.11.6 finale 25.4

Lyric tool lets me type in score 1st verse. When I go to enter 2nd verse the cursor won't appear in middle of grand staff. If I keep going to 4th verse a cursor will appear. This problem didn't happen in 30+ other files I just did from same template. Any suggestions?

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Are the triangles showing to the left? Maybe you have to move verse 2 to the correct level.

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They are showing. I took a very recent (today) older file and cleared everything individually rather than clear all. It works. There must be a setting.

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I used that to make a new template which works. Crazy thing is the older template worked.

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They always do, right up until they don't!

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I used ot be able to drag the second verse father below the first verse, but now I annot see any triangles to the left to do this.  What am I missing?  Thanks.

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I can not tell what you are missing, but there is another option:

 

Lyrics menu > Adjust Baselines…

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The issue is that the song has two verses.  Obviously verse two needs to run parallel under verse one.  When I tried to click in the verse two lyrics, they were almost touching the verse one lyrics.  In the past I was able to find a triangle to the left and rage verse two down to avoid this.  Now I cannot find these triangles.  I have not done lyrics for a very long time.  Thank you.

 

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I also have found that verse two has some different rhythmic figures in two places.  How can you put notes in for verse two only as I know changing the rhythms will force the verse one lyrics to go along for the ride.  Thanks.

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Have you selected a note for a lyric in the line you wish to adjust?

Are you in "Type Into Score" mode?

You can switch stanzas in the Lyric Edit screen.

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I am attaching the vocal part.  At letter A is one spot where verse two has eights at the start and verse one has a quarter note due to lyrics in it.  The rhythm at Letter C in the first bar is different on verse two. I click them into the score from the lyrics window.  

I am trying to upload the vocal but it keeps saying it is limited to jeep up to 2 MB.  My part is jpeg 1.4 MB  ?

I am trying to upload the

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You need to be in Type Into Score mode to see the triangles. Just skip over the notes that scan differently from the other verse. Often, a dashed slur is used on the notes.

 

This FINALE forum doesn’t allow you to upload a FINALE file.

 

You can upload your file to Dropbox or something similar, and post a link. Or, just post a screenshot for us to look at.

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