On Mar 14, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Noel Stoutenburg wrote:
It is my experience with various versions of Windows Finale, that copying lyrics into a file which already contains lyrics produces results which cannot be predicted based upon Finale documentation. In general, when trying to copy lyrics between documents, Finale will not move content into a lyrics subspace that already contains lyrics. So if you have two files with lyrics in the lyrics subspace "verse 1", and you try to combine them, the lyrics of the second file will be moved into a different subspace, so that the lyrics in "verse 1" of the source file will wind up in the next available verse, perhaps "verse 2", in the target file.
If I were merging two files and both had lyrics, I'd make sure none of them are in the same verse box. Finale allows for a ridiculous number of verses so it's easy to avoid overlap. Move the lyrics in one piece to verse 50, 51, and 52. I would move them within the one file and make sure everything is tidy BEFORE merging the two files.
I don't have experience with merging files specifically, so I don't know how it works, but on general principle, I think it's always a good idea to have lyrics in different boxes. They give you zillions of them, may as well make good use of them.
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