
To open a Sibelius for Windows file (which will have a. Music and text fonts are also substituted intelligently - see the Text section below for more details. Both file formats use UNICODE, a new standard character set, which means that special characters (like accented letters) are automatically translated between Mac and Windows. Sibelius uses exactly the same file format on both Windows and Mac, and opening Windows scores on a Mac or vice versa is straightforward. So if you're sending Sibelius files created/modified in v1.21 to another Sibelius user, please ask them to update to v1.22 if their version is before v1.2 (i.e. In addition, Sibelius v1.2 can open files saved in v1.22. Version 1.22 of Sibelius can open Sibelius files saved in all previous versions. It is also still included in the Substitute Equipment dialog box for convenience. The Reset Sounds button is now found in the Sounds dialog box (type I, or choose it from the Play/Flexi-Time menu).

Page Setup dialog ( Layout menu) is now called Document (as in ClarisWorks, Word, Quark, etc.).Reset Spacing ( Layout menu) is now called Reset Note Spacing.Open MIDI File dialog: MIDI commands changed to MIDI messages.Edit Staff Types: Percussion is now called Drum set instead.To achieve the same function, just delete a time signature, click No if asked if the bars should be rewritten, reinsert it at the same place, and say Yes to the bars being rewritten. Enforce Time Signature ( Edit menu) has been removed.Transposing Score has moved from the File menu to the Notes menu.Some menus have become dialog boxes instead: in the Create menu, Clef, Line, and Staff Type Change in the Notes menu, Noteheads is now a dialog box.There have been a number of cosmetic changes to the menus within Sibelius. The improvements detailed below are grouped into topics in alphabetical order, as in the Reference section of the User Guide, as follows:Īll significant improvements since Version 1.105 are listed (with the exception of very minor changes and bug-fixes), and improvements since Version 1.2 are marked with an asterisk (*). Why not print this out for future reference?
