I tried that and it didn't work. I guess this is only for future entries - I also did not find any "apply" button or something like this...
Kurt > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Im > Auftrag von Jeff Tanner > Gesendet: Montag, 29. Oktober 2007 23:09 > An: finale@shsu.edu > Betreff: Re: [Finale] Sibelius 5 - Second impressions > > You can also just edit the Lyrics Text Style and it will change them > all and make it that position as the default. > > > On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:27 PM, dhbailey wrote: > > > Kurt Gnos wrote: > >> Hi, > >> today I gave Sibelius my second try. > >> I entered and arranged a simple melody (S/A in canon) and T/B > >> accompaniment, > >> to check out copying, pasting, lyrics and so on. > >> Many things work quite differently than in Finale, but I got most > >> things > >> working. > >> I could enter notes, copy and paste things, add lyrics. Sibelius > >> crashed > >> once (something about a C-Library), but for the rest of the time > >> worked > >> quite fine. Playback: I had to restart two times because one of my > >> SATB voices would not > >> play back. Restarting fixed it. > >> I now have entered the music and lyrics. I wanted to shift the > >> lyrics a > >> little lower because they are too near to the staff symstem. I've > >> checked > >> all the menus and fiddled around for half an hour but I could not > >> find a way > >> to adjust the verse 1 baseline. I am quite certain there must be a > >> way to do > >> it, but where? I can adjust one syllable no problem, but the whole > >> lyrics > >> line? > > > > highlight the entire staff, then under Edit menu select FILTER and > > then select Lyrics. Then only the lyrics are selected and using up > > or down arrow (or clicking and dragging) will move all the lyrics. > > > > > > [snip] > > > > > > -- > > David H. Bailey > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > > Finale mailing list > > Finale@shsu.edu > > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > Finale@shsu.edu > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale