Spotting Text & Rehearsal Marks To specific Location

Coming From Finale. I’ve been Trying to figure this out for days now. I’m mainly a lead sheet pop jazz chart writer. Im trying to get rehearsal marks to offset in the left margin of a system with text labeling each section. I have to do this many times like in this chart below.

Be My Baby_Ronnettes.pdf (92.0 KB)

I figured out how to offset the rehearsal marks horizontally in the engrave option for rehearsal marks.
“Horizontal Position” - Horizontal offset for rehearsal mark aligned with systemic barline
This option works fine for single staff instruments but no effect on multi staffs such as keyboard or grand staff.

Another problem with text for labeling each section. I’ll create text that says verse under a rehearsal mark and move them manually in engrave mode. But when I create other text it moves. I really need to be able to spot text to a specific position. To have to move these every time is really time consuming. In finale I could make frequently used text in advance and specifically spot it anywhere in the score with a key command. Is there another way to go about this. Thanks in advance

Welcome to the forum, @Dewittgz. There’s currently no good automatic way to produce this kind of alignment. As you’ve found you can get rehearsal marks to line up with the systemic barline, but you can’t get them to go into the margin by default.

What might help a tiny bit is that when you add your text section labels, if you deactivate the Avoids collisions checkbox in Properties, you will be able to freely move the text in Engrave mode without it causing anything else to move around.