Kevin, The fact that you are dragging systems to page one, tells us that there is plenty of room for these systems and no need to use the resize tool to make everything smaller. Here's a screen s...
In Preferences, have you tried changing the maximum level of undo to unlimited?
The space between verses 3 & 4 can be found in the lyric tool, adjust baselines. his dialog box you'll find ways to just adjust the vertical offset In a single system or the whole piece. Verses 1...
Does the crashing occur in all files or just this one? If just this one, try exporting an xml file from it and opening that xml in a new file. You can also delete your preferences to see if that he...
In Special Tools, there's a Tie tool. You can adjust the tie's size, shape, placement, etc... with this tool.
You need to adjust your settings with the page layout tool. I would select systems 2 thru 8 and make the distance between systems smaller.
My only suggestion is to duplicate the articulation and change the playback definition to be different from the other. You will end up with 2 visually identical articulations though.
There's going to be a lot of copying and pasting when doing this. I would approach it in two steps. Start with a copy of your original score. Add 5 blank staves for flex parts 1 thru 5. Create your...
Someone changed the staff attributes to the top staff. To fix it, go into the staff attibute dialog box and under Independent Elements, you'll see that "notehead font" has a checkmark. Remove the c...
Have you tried highlighting just the top staff, then from the Utilities menu choose Change/Note Heads? Select the standard filled in black note head and press okay. Do this on a copy of your file j...