Hope you've got everything sorted, now ScottyG. As you've picked your software, can I divert the thread a bit? There is a complicated trade-off between at least two representations of the music:

a) precise layout of notes, etc, on paper b) the sound of the music (e.g. midi format)

For example, as far as I can tell, MIDI does not usually hold key information and repeated phrases are usually played sequencially, whereas the paper representation does not usually represent all the dynamics very precisely.

As a further complication, the availability of 'digitised' notes and lyrics (as opposed to say MP3) over the Internet is, I think, mainly in MIDI, ABC, SongWright (Digital Tradition). I am sure there are many more.

Finally, as people have said elsewhere, Sibelius is quite literally 100 times more expensive than some of the shareware programs which are often adequate for basic users.

The result of all of this is that I have ended up with four different music notation programs all of which can read MIDI - which is generally not ideal for producing paper as I said before - but are generally not compatable with each other.

What is the general opinion on the best way of exchanging notation over the net these days, given what is, frankly, rather a mess of formats?