Here's how to write Guitar Tablature:

1) Click on File -> New

2) For the score Setting, choose 'Default'.

3) By default, only one staff will appear in the Score Editor. To add a second
   staff to hold the tablature, choose Track -> New from the menu bar at the 
   top of the screen.  You will see a second staff appear.

4) Now we will change the second staff to guitar tab. Click on the Pencil Tool
   and then click twice on the Clefs button in the upper right of the Score
   Editor Window.  Select the last option for guitar tablature.
 
5) Click on the very beginning of the second track and track 2 will now be
   set to display in guitar tablature.

6) To change the MIDI sound for the tracks to a guitar patch 

   - Select Window –> Track Sheet from the menu bar at the top of the screen.

   - Click in the program column for each track and then pick a sound from the
     list.  

   - For General MIDI, the various guitar sounds are assigned to patch numbers
     25 through 32.  For our purposes here, be sure to set both tracks to 
     the same sound.

7) Go back to the Score Editor, by clicking on Window -> Score Editor from the
   menu bar at the top of the screen.

8) Now start entering notes on the upper staff using the pencil tool.  After
   you've entered some notes, click on Track -> Merge from the menu bar at the
   top of the screen and merge track 1 with track 2.  The notes from track 1 
   will be copied to track 2, where they will be displayed in guitar
   tablature.

9) Vibrato & slide marks are available by selecting the Symbols button and
   then the Adjust set.  You only have to put these markings on the top staff.
   The same merge command you used above will transfer these markings over as
   well.

10) IMPORTANT:  SAVE THIS STEP UNTIL THE VERY END.  
    If one or more of the notes is playing on the wrong string, switch from 
    the Pencil Tool to the Select Tool and double-click on the incorrect 
    number on the wrong string.  A drop down dialog will automatically appear.
    Select 'String' and then choose the string you want the note to be played
    on.  (The reason you want to do this last is so when you merge tracks, 
    you don't get the same notes appearing over and over.  You want to make 
    sure all of your merging is done, and then make these final adjustments.)



QUICK STEPS FOR NOTATION WIZARDS

1) Write out the entire track on one staff in treble clef
2) Select Track -> New
3) Hit the 'UP' key on the keyboard to move the cursor back to track one
4) Select Track -> Copy (1 to 2)
5) Select guitar tab from the 'Clefs' button (click twice to open clefs menu)
6) Click on the beginning of the desired track
7) If you make a mistake and you want to put it back to treble clef, just
   select the treble clef from the clefs menu and click the beginning of the
   track again.
8) Read number 10 above if you need to change strings for some of the notes.


SAVING YOUR GUITAR TAB LAYOUT AS A TEMPLATE

1) Set up the file the way you want it to appear.
2) From the menu bar at the top of the screen, go to Window ? Comments
3) Type the name of your template here in the Comments window.
4) You then save the file in the TEMPLS directory. The TEMPLS directory is a
   subdirectory of the Music Write program directory.

There is no limit to the number of template files you can have.

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