John, Noteworthy is a MIDI program and a notation program.

I have a friend with a master's in music [horn]. She uses Finale. To her, music is so important that it was worth the big bucks. I dont think that her program, at $300 bucks, does much more than mine at $40.

Apparently MO has already purchased Noteworthy, so why shouldn't he just learn it and start having fun with music? [shades of Micky Mouse Club]

Everybody pause for a moment and picture Annette Funicello [God bless her] doing the hula to the "Fun with Music" theme. If you live in the frozen North, see if it doesn't warm you up.

Mo, are you using Help and reading the directions? I admit they seem to have been written by a corporate attorney, not a computer user. But they do help. Some.

To zip to a certain measure, use Cntl G. For example, to get to a B part of a dance tune, go Cntl G 9. This pops you onto the ninth measure of the piece. B parts usually start around there.

On my computer (Windows XP) I don't have to use the irritating Cntl+ combination. I just hop over the keyboard - cntl + 9, - and it knows what I want. If yours doesnt, turn on Sticky Keys.

Ice is still coming down. My computer turned itself off a few minutes ago, but fortunately it seems all right.

I am working on a cheeful German song for Advent, "Fling Wide the Door." I've asked myself, "Did God really want this thing to change key in the middle, or was the composer just trying to impress other musicians?" I decided that it would be okay with God to remove the key change using Noteworthy and make the song easier for our little congregation to learn. Fun with music, once again.