Depending on the format of your piece,
you may want the music on the first page to begin slightly lower on the
page to allow room for a title space.
- Scroll to the beginning of the piece. Click
the Page Layout tool
. Finale displays
the systems on the first page, representing each as a rectangle with handles
at the upper-left and lower-right.
- Click in the middle of the first staff system
and drag it downwards. When you drag the top system down, all subsequent
systems move down on the page as well. If you want more precision, try
this: Choose Page Layout > Systems > Edit Margins. Click the top system’s handle, and then enter a larger value in
the topmost text box at the right side of the screen. These numbers represent
the system margins.
- Click the upper left handle of the first staff
system and drag it upwards until it overlaps the top page margin.
If you later use Space Systems Evenly, Finale will adjust the Distance
Between Systems value. Because we don’t want the space for the title to
be considered in this spacing, we needed to adjust the top margin of the
system.
