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Click-assigning lyrics

Click-assigning lyrics - Finale Tutorial

From the course: Finale Essential Training

Click-assigning lyrics

- [Instructor] In a previous video, we learned how to add lyrics by typing them into the score. Let's look at another way to add lyrics that's often faster. So songwriters and lyricists often have a copy of their lyrics saved as text documents. Using Click Assignment, you can transfer those lyrics directly to your score without retyping them. So I've got the Click Assignment Start and Example files open. I've tiled the two windows, they're both in scroll view, and I've zoomed in just a little bit. I've also got a text document open in the background and you can find that document as both a Word doc and as a text document in the Exercise Files folder. But I'm going to Command-Tab to put Word on top of Finale so I can copy those lyrics. So I'll find that and now the first part of this is just information. So I'll grab the rest of this and I'll copy it by pressing Command-C, that would be Control-C on a PC. And then I can…

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