Truth be told, when it involves the LeadSheet Options, I'm very often just trying to change things one at a time and then seeing what that did in the Preview, either accepting that change or then going back to the Options and changing whatever back to the way it was, then trying another until I "hit" on something that looks like it'll do the job.

And for sheets used in presentation to others, I am not shy about printing out whatever is close to what I want and then getting out the whiteout and the pen or pencil, using the good old fashioned manual method. The trick to using whiteout and pencil come in when I have it the way I want it, then I make a copy of that original using the scanner or photocopier and pass those copies out, they don't look to bad that way.

When the going gets really rough, I'm not averse to printing out the song in two or three different ways, then using the scissors and clear tape to assemble something onto another page for presentation to the photocopier, as well. And once I also invoked the Word Processor for the lyrics to a huge choir presentation, clipping those lines of lyrics and taping them under the staff. When photocopied, the right transparent tape becomes invisible for the most part. This method puts the blood, toil, tears and sweat back into the term, "Cut and Paste" *grin* but can Git R Done with quite good looking and easy to read results.


--Mac

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