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Formatting and printing lead sheets

Formatting and printing lead sheets - Finale Tutorial

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Formatting and printing lead sheets

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- [Instructor] After you enter the notes, lyrics, and chords, you may want to make some small adjustments to improve the overall look of your score before you print it. So I've got the format and print start file open if you want to follow along. And let's start by adjusting the margins of how the music is placed on the page. So I'm going to go to the page tool, and when you do that, you get these handles all over that are actually the margins. So these ones on the outside of the page, those are your page margins. And then the ones that are inside those page margins, those are staff or stave margins. So the first thing I want to do is I want to adjust the left edge of the page. It's typical in a lot of the finale templates that the left margin is larger. So to do that, all I need to do is right click on this handle at the top and choose edit margins. Notice that it says the page margin. And now I can highlight…

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