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Use the filters. There are built-in filters to select specific text styles: [ctrl/cmd]a Home-->Select-->Advanced Follow the steps in the image then: Go to the Text tab and change Lyrics line y to Lyric line x (eg 2 to 1, 3 to 2, 4 to 3 - in that order) Go back to the top for the next line. This is a...

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Absolutely not. What do you think this is, Finale?

1. Sibelius will not playback chord symbols. If you want the chords to play, either write them in for real on a (hidden) staff or use the plugin "Realize chord symbols" 2 You probably either pressed w with the piano part selected or you have otherwise opened the piano part. Look at the tabs on the t...

It's called a keypad and it's under View-->Panels-->Keypad.

Clarinet (and trumpet for that matter) parts in the score are usually written at transposed pitch. The music is transposed up by a major 2nd, so if the violins are in C, the clarinets will be in D.

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Here's my thought on the matter - if you set up a dotted eighth before you input, Sibelius will place a dotted eighth. Because that is what you asked it to do. And yes, it will ignore the beaming rules - because you told it to. Sibelius is not psychic. It cannot read your mind. If you tell it to do ...

We can't possibly diagnose this without the actual score to examine. I might guess that there's a manual repeat somewhere, but you'd have to check in Play-->Repeats-->Manual repeats. Other than that, send the score to me via email (mike@mike-lyons.co.uk)

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Have you checked the faders in the mixer and the pan levels? There are also other adjustable parameters which may (or may not) make the sound better. Personally, I'd get NotePerformer. It works with Sibelius, Finale and Dorico and the quality of the sound is far superior (if you ignore the slighly a...

Replace the normal barline between the bars with a 'special normal' barline OR use "Split multirest" (on the layout tab of the ribbon) on that barline.

It's under File-->Preferences-->Other

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I don't generally use chord symbols in my own work, but I understand that if you switch on Legacy chord symbols you can pretty much type in what you want.