Finale® is the world standard for creating, editing and printing sheet music. Used by more educators, composers, students, performers and music ministers than any other notation program.
	EASIEST SCORE SET-UP Select your instruments or voices and the key and time signatures and the score is set-up automatically. Or use one over 50 professional templates.
	6 WAYS TO ENTER NOTES   Select a note. Click it onto the staff. Notes space automatically. Notate as you play a solo acoustic instrument. Type notes on your computer keyboard with or without MIDI. Notate as you play using a MIDI keyboard. Scan printed sheet music. It opens automatically with SmartScore Lite. Import MIDI or Internet files. Also imports Encore files.
	HEAR YOUR MUSIC COME TO LIFE Violin staves sound like violins and flutes sound like flutes. Dynamics and articulations play back for full dramatic effect.
	PRINT OR PUBLISH Print the full score or parts; publish on the Internet. Save as a web page or to Finale Showcase; a free web site for sharing music.

What's new in Finale 2003:
We are reinventing what it means to be best. Our new Finale 2003 features will help you create sheet music even faster than before.

Choose from over 14 various interface designs! Large, medium or small icons. Even keep the Traditional look if you want. Also, choose from 25 different background graphics or create your own. In total we've added over 1700 graphic improvements!

Finale 2003's new Document and Program Options let you easily customize your Finale default settings, save them as a Library and apply those settings anywhere, anytime.

Now you can set the number of systems for one page, a range of pages or all pages.

New Free SmartScore Lite Scanning offers the best accuracy at the lowest cost. Scanning has finally arrived! And it took Finale 2003 to do it. No other notation program offers better scanning accuracy.

Finale 2003 can handle notation for an amazing array of fretted instruments. Enter notes directly into TAB staves. Or copy from a companion Standard Notation Staff to a TAB staff and vice-versa. Specify the lowest fret to use as you paste.

Ready-to-use templates for Worksheets, Kodaly and Auto-Stick Notation now come ready for you to use. Easy. Flexible.

Harmonizes your melody and creates your piano, bass and drum accompaniments instantly. Choose from four styles—Swing, Ballad, Bebop and Bossa Nova.