Sorry, I completely misunderstood. You WANT the extension, but you want it 
ABOVE the staff.

Add a hard space in the first syllable on the new system, then drag it above 
the staff. It will have its own word extension. A hard space is alt-spacebar on 
a Mac; I don’t know what the character is on Windows.

Christopher


> On Aug 3, 2016, at 4:03 PM, Christopher Smith 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I usually just select Adjust Word Extensions, select the little square handle 
> on the word extension and hit Delete, but if there are a lot of them, I do 
> this:
> 
> Add a sixteenth rest after the last note you want an extension on in the 
> correct layer, and make it a grace rest (in Speedy, hit ;) and hide it (in 
> Speedy, hit letter O). This makes it take up the least room and not show, so 
> it doesn’t affect spacing too badly.
> 
> Christopher
> 
> 
>> On Aug 3, 2016, at 3:20 PM, Barbara Touburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> I have to vocal voices on one staff in two layers, each with indepentent 
>> lyrics. Finale draws the word extension for layer 1, the syllables of 
>> which I have dragged up, correcty above the staff, but continues them on 
>> the next system as if the lyrics were under the notes. How do I resolve 
>> this?
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