Thanks for all the comments!

To Noel: thanks, I knew about the - and + but hadn't found the place to allow more bars in the display. So that would help, if not for the following: the font of the lyrics in the lyrics bar stays the same enormous size, and when I change the number of bars on the screen, the lyrics basically get shifted around to cover a larger number of bars. When you print this out, the lyrics remain on the printed page where they were before, but each line now has more bars, and thus the correspondence between bar and lyric is lost. I would call that a bug.

As to point #4, I could understand (but just barely) if ACW would put back all the chords that IT thought should be there, but the two or three times I tried it (but now can't reproduce), it got rid of all chords, and just put an F chord in bar 1. All other 212 bars were blank. Also, you are supposed to be able to keep your edits and yet go back to ACW, according to the docs, and to the dialog that asks you if you want to keep all that. But we'll let this go until it happens again... :-)

As to point #2, setting the key to F where most of it is Dm, I think that's fine. Would be good if it could remember that you changed it, though.

To solidrock: Thanks for the pointer, that sure seems like it would save a lot of work. By the way, it seems that RealBand duplicates a bunch of stuff in BIAB. Is RealBand the start of a rewrite of BIAB? Why have two different programs otherwise? I haven't quite figured out when to use BIAB and when to use RB.

To Mario: you may be right, it takes about as much time to edit the chords produced by ACW as it would take to type them in.

About chorus and verse: I have read the docs and FAQ on that, but still don't understand. What is a chorus in BIAB? How would you describe what the chorus is in Sultans of Swing, for example? As I said before, it seems like ABCBCCCCD to me, where A is the intro (8 bars of essentially Dm) and B is the first what I would call verse, C the second (Sultans doesn't really have what I would call choruses), which is like the first, except it has an added piece, and finally a tagline of four bars that get repeated until the song fades out. Suppose I knew what BIAB means by a chorus, could I do something with it? One is supposed to be able to print out multiple lines of lyrics for each bar of chords, for example, but I don't know how to do it.

I'm sorry about all these questions, but you said you didn't mind newbies... :-)

Thanks again!

Willy.