In the upper left corner of the window containing your score click on “Voice -” and select “2” (or “3”, “4”, etc.). Then in Lyric Entry mode click the note on the staff where you want to enter text. You can drag that line of lyrics up and down by clicking and holding the arrow in the margin and dragging up or down. When you are done adding lyrics, click on “Voice x” again and select “All Voices”. When you are editing lyrics, you should select the voice again if it is not voice 1. Otherwise, results may not be what you want.

In order to enter lyrics below the bass clef of a piano staff, select voice “1” rather than “All Voices” for the first line of lyrics, and “2”, “3”, etc. after that rather than voices “5”, “6”, etc., even though the bass clef normally has voices 5, 6, 7, and 8.

In the upper left corner of the window containing your score click on “Voice -” and select “2” (or “3”, “4”, etc.). Then in Lyric Entry mode click the note on the staff where you want to enter text. You can drag that line of lyrics up and down by clicking and holding the arrow in the margin and dragging up or down. When you are done adding lyrics, click on “Voice x” again and select “All Voices”. When you are editing lyrics, you should select the voice again if it is not voice 1.

It’s my favorite feature of Encore, hands down. Compared to the way that all other notation apps do it (especially Finale!), it’s a major time saver for me. I hope that E6 if we ever see it doesn’t mess with that.

I like that I can use any font and size installed on my Mac. I prefer Minion Pro that one can get free from Adobe by downloading annd installing Acrobat Reader. You have to install the font so that it is available to all apps and all users—how is different depending on if you are running Mac or Windows.