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File/Export/MusicXML

Choose Export to save a Finale document in MusicXML format. MusicXML files can be opened in many music software programs. MusicXML is particularly useful for sharing files with earlier versions of Finale. A Finale document contains items (for example, Staff Styles, Engraver Slurs, Percussion Maps, and Shape Articulations) that simply didn't exist in earlier versions. Consequently, previous versions of Finale will not recognize this data.

Finale can export MusicXML 3.0 files (compressed and uncompressed, .mxl and .xml), MusicXML 2.0 files, MusicXML 1.1 files (for use with Finale 2006 and 2007), as well as MusicXML 1.0 files (for use with Finale 2003 to 2005 on Windows).