Melisma and text editor

[EddieCG]

Thank you for your reply. But what I am trying to do is to learn how I can enter the lyrics in a text editor so that I can then copy and paste that into Notation. I am trying to reduce the amount of editing that i have to do, as I have a whole choir program to input! It would seem that as each note has to have a text box (of some kind) associated with it, the only way I can 'automate' the process is to put in the extra hyphen? The melisma does not tell Notation to stretch the syllable to the next note?