To create measure numbers

1. Click the Measure tool and select Measure > Edit Measure Number Regions. The Measure Number dialog box appears. If there is no measure number region, click Add.
2. Enter the measures to include for this region. The Include Measure and Through text boxes are the actual measures in the piece; they have nothing to do with what you’re going to call them. For example, if the piece begins with a pickup measure, you’ll probably want what is actually measure 2 to be numbered as measure 1; if so, type 2 into the first text box. If you simply want to number every measure sequentially (a single region), type 1 into the first text box and 1000 (or any number larger than your actual measure count) in the second text box. If you want to define a region to number only part of the piece, the Through measure is the last measure to be numbered.
3. Enter the number you want to start your region numbering with in the Starting Number text box. If you want to use letters, type in a number corresponding to its place in the alphabet.
4. Select the style of measure numbers (numeric, alphabetic, etc.) from the Style drop-down menu.
5. If you want each measure number to be prefixed, enter the Prefix number or letter. If you entered the letter A in the Prefix text box for a region with numbered measures, for example, you’d create a sequence of measures labeled A15, A16, A17, and so on. On the other hand, if you entered the number 21 in the Prefix text box for a region with lettered measures, you’d create a sequence of measures labeled 21a, 21b, 21c, and so on.
6. Click Set Font to choose a font and style for this region. Click OK (or press ENTER).
7. Click Position. The Position Measure Number dialog box appears, displaying a symbolic measure number.
8. If you want an enclosure around each measure number, select an enclosure from the drop-down menu. If you don’t see one you like, click Edit Enclosure and the Enclosure Designer dialog box appears. See Enclosure Designer dialog box.
9. Drag anywhere in the graphic box to position the measure number relative to the measure. Click OK (or press ENTER). You return to the Measure Number dialog box, where you can make various other settings.
10. Specify the incidence of the numbers. If you click Show Measure Number at Start of Staff System, a measure number will only appear at the beginning of a new system. If you click Show on every __ measures beginning with measure __, you can specify how often a number appears and where it should start from (with 1 being the first measure of the region). Multiple of 1 would number every measure in the region.
11. If you want a range of measure numbers on multimeasure rests select Show Measure Ranges on Multimeasure Rests. If you want the range to always appear, also select Show on Multimeasure Rests. If you want a bracket around the range, enter the bracket in the Left and Right boxes.
12. To set up the parameters for another region, click Add. To remove a region, click Delete.
13. Click OK (or press ENTER). The numbers appear in the specified staves on the specified measures. Each number has a handle.

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