[Crochetty]

Thanks again to Sherry for quick and detailed responses to my queries both here and by email. I think I owe Notation an apology for jumping in with problems a bit too hastily. I have now ordered Composer and had a quick look at some of the 600+ page users manual - and I can see that the earlier problems may have been my fault due to confusion about how the software works.
Am looking forward to ordering the users manual in book form after my holiday as I find it much easier than having to click from screen to screen while learning a new prog.
In fact it is only the composing aspect of the programme that I need to learn. Those aspects that are included in Notation Musician (including merging or deleting staves, changing key signatures) seemed to me to be almost intuitive and required minimal use of the help files.
I cannot help feeling that working with Composer is going to be fun.

Crochetty.