You can input text at specific rhythmic positions in the score using text items. You can input staff-attached text for single staves or system-attached text that is applied to all staves and appears in all applicable layouts.
Procedure
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Open the Symbols tab, and click Text.
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Do one of the following:
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Activate Text to input staff-attached text; that is, text items that you want to apply to individual staves and to only appear on those staves.
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Activate System Text to input system-attached text; that is, text items that you want to apply to all staves and to appear in all applicable layouts.
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Click at the rhythmic position on the staff where you want to start inputting text.
The text formatting options pane is shown.
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Enter the desired text.
Note
You can insert a line break by pressing Enter.
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Optional: Use the formatting options to format the text.
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Press Esc to close the text formatting options pane.
Result
The text is input. If you do not change or specify the style, the text item uses the default text font that is selected on the Fonts page of the Score Settings dialog.