Every year Finale notepad seems to come out with a different version which is incompatible with the next year's version. I have the 2000 version which I like even though it took a while for this computer to adapt to it. It now works well, basically, and came to me with a computer that was broken which Autoharpist/singer/songwriter Carol Stober gave me to try and repair. I had this hopefully idea that if everyone had the same version of a music writing software program we could write songs together. So far this hasn't happened.