Hello Matt, and thank you.

I did previously try the songform approach as I'm familiar enough with how to use that.

It seemed perfect for assembling a longer piece from repeated sections, however when then generating the revised form after nominating the relevant sections in order it still goes to the 286 bars - or at least wants to but falls over of course being 255+.

That's why I think I should now get to grips with tags and repeats etc!

Thanks for the common-sense input ... yes I can see that writing it out in linear form until the 6 consecutive verses would be a way to slim it down ... just organise a suitable number of repeats at that point.

Not sure about tagging the last two choruses however ... I haven't used tags at all so don't know what's involved ... as I said, new to this. Some reading/searching for me this evening I see smile

Thanks again!