Finale 2005 Power! by Mark A
Johnson
Finale Power
Music notation can be a tough task to master. Finale is the ultimate tool for
conquering it. And now you have the ultimate guide for mastering Finale
2005! With Finale 2005 Power!, you’ll learn how to create professional-
quality sheet music with Finale quickly and efficiently. Begin by
establishing a solid understanding of Finales framework. Then get ready to
master the everyday shortcuts and tricks that make Finale a breeze to use.
Walk through each step of the score creation process—from starting a new
document, to entering and spacing your music, to layout, extracting parts,
and, finally, printing your score. Learn how to quicken your pace using
special tricks, new features in Finale 2005, little-known options, and
supplemental third-party plug-ins. Provides comprehensive coverage of
the most up-to-date version of Finale. The author, an experienced
technical support representative and quality assurance technician for
Finale and other notation products, discusses the application’s features,
screens commands and controls in a writing style free of jargon and

techno-babble. Intermediate and advanced users find helpful tricks and
guidance through some of Finales most cavernous regions, while step-by-
step tutorials walk readers through the score creation process thus making
it accessible even to beginners. Companion Web site contains third-party
plug-ins, fonts, examples and other materials.
Personal Review: Finale 2005 Power! by Mark A Johnson
Finale Power 2005a book review.
The book starts off with the usual preliminary global view of the whole
program. I expected this part to be boring, but I read it through and picked
up lots of details that I did not know. Throughout these first chapters, there
are references to the subject to later chapters, where you can find more
details. The book itself is well layed out with tips throughout. The whole
book reminds me of the format used by David Pogue's Missing Manuals.
Although there is a comprehensive Finale manual on line, this book
actually goes into more detail, not so much in describing every little detail,
but more into how you actually perform the functions. Years ago I printed
out the whole Finale manual which filled two 3-inch binders. At the
beginning of each chapter, I wrote out all the `How to's" at the end of each
chapter, so that I could go to a function right away. The Finale Power
2005a book expands on all of these `How to's', to show you how to handle
these functions in detail.
The end of the book tackles integration of Finale with the web and other
programs and also shows some examples of using third party plug-ins. I
hav not gone into specific details of the functions, but I will just mention
that I did find one plug-in of real interest to me. It is `Smart explosion of
Multi-part Staves. I did not find it in TGtools in Finale, and found that I
needed to download it. It can be used free of charge for 30 days. The book
describes how to use it. What it does is it takes a staff with multi parts in it,
and seperates the parts, such that each part is on a different stave. A little
bit like the explode function, but much much smarter. There are other
plugins that are explained in this chapter, and references to all the third
party sites where you can obtain those extra plugins that make Finale so
much easier to use.
As an intermediate user of Finale, I would say that the book is most helpful
for me. I think that when I have read through it, I will be able to be a more
powerful user and if I need even more nitty gritty details, I will be able to
read the online comprehensive manual more easily and also be very savvy
to the more advanced details that are often discussed in the Finale bbs
forums.
I would recommend the book to all Finale users; beginner, intermediate or
advanced.
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