Many thanks to you both: Rachael and Wyndham.

I think you're right - perhaps I'm looking at it in too perfectionist a way at the start!

It never crossed my mind to create everything as one complete linear format. I assumed the program would let you define the sections and enter them as distinct sections, adding them to the chords display as you went.

Oddly enough I have done most of the rest that you suggest: Key, tempo, style, changed to 8 bars and 2 repeats (the first two verses of my song), allocating the end of chorus etc.

1. But I did have a problem with "uncheck Generate 2 bar ending", because every time I unchecked it - no matter whether I saved the settings, simply continued with the song, closed the program and reopened it, the check was always back there in the box, and I can see nothing in the preferences to turn this off by default. The other problem was that I wanted a four bar ending, but every time I changed it to four, it added four bars to the existing two bar ending, rather than replacing it whether or not I checked or unchecked generate additional bars, and created an automatic repeat after a first ending and adding space for a second ending as well. Can anyone advise how to cancel this completely?

2. Rachael, you say: "Place part markers where you want - usually at the start of the verse and bridge" - how do you do this? And how do you "Tell BIAB that a Tag exists"?

3. Finally, if I do enter everything in one linear sequence including all the repeats, how do I get rid of the extra bits when I've told BIAB how to fit them together using tags?

4. As I commented in my earlier post my song is simply two verses, a bridge, another verse, and a four bar ending. If I set the "chorus" to repeat (I do wish BIAB wouldn't use the jazz phraseology!), then how do I get it to go to the bridge and then back to the true chorus?

If anyone can help me further I'll check in again in the AM (I'm GMT and just about to go to retire gracefully!) to see where to go next.

I really can't see how anyone can describe this software as easy! Perhaps it is once you get into it, but it's rather like learning a new language compared to to the intuitiveness of the high end graphics and web-design software I'm used to using.

Thanks again to you both for being so supportive.