I want to insert the musical notes on the general music staff that you can
download from templates. I tried inserting symbols but nothing shows up on
the staff. Is there a way to do so? Thanks.

Hi

I think the music staff template is designed to be used much as one used to
use books of blank manuscript paper: with a pen. You can find a few music
symbols at Insert Symbol, but Word isn't designed to create music. For
that you need something like Sibelius.

Hope this helps.

Shauna Kelly. Microsoft MVP.
http://www.shaunakelly.com/word


"gracepastor" wrote in message
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I want to insert the musical notes on the general music staff that you can
download from templates. I tried inserting symbols but nothing shows up
on
the staff. Is there a way to do so? Thanks.

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005 11:38:10 -0700, "gracepastor"
wrote in
microsoft.public.word.docmanagement:

I want to insert the musical notes on the general music staff that you can
download from templates. I tried inserting symbols but nothing shows up on
the staff. Is there a way to do so? Thanks.

No. Those staff lines are constructed using very small table rows with
borders; e.g. the row height for "Treble clef staff (10/pg.)" is fixed
at 0.2cm - whatever you enter will hardly be visible.

There are ways of doing this purely with MS Word using special fonts
(e.g. see 1), but I think it's clumsy and extremely time consuming. As
always, you need the right tool for the job, and MS Word isn't it.

As Shauna Kelly suggested, you need a music notation program to do this.
Most have a method of exporting whole pages or smaller sections into
common graphical formats; note that vector-based formats are much
preferrable to bitmap-based formats. The transfer of images via screen
capture is probably unsatisfactory for printed documents.

There are plenty of music notation programs around, most cheaper than
the one Shauna suggested (which is $US450 (2)). My personal preference
is the Mozart program (3) - good value for money ($US120), extremely
economical note entry via PC keyboard, good graphic exports (EMF and a
dozen others), and a very responsive support mailing list (4), attended
by the author daily. It also provides a trial download and a free
viewer. I use it a lot.

1)http://www.oremus.org/labarum/mainmusic.htm
2)http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002GLM2C/104-0082503-3399916?v=glance
3)http://www.mozart.co.uk/
4)http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mozart_software/

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