# Welcome thread for Finale users **URL:** \ **Category:** Dorico\ **Tags:** finale-crossgrade\ **Created:** [August 27, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/welcome-thread-for-finale-users/929784 "2024-08-27T08:01:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 441
**Author:** ![Lillie\_Harris](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/lillie_harris/32/363348_2.png) [@Lillie\_Harris](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/Lillie_Harris)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2024, 12:29pm UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/welcome-thread-for-finale-users/929784/441 "2024-09-05T12:29:26Z")
“Dorico” is made by a reasonably small team of dedicated professionals, myself included (I write the manual). You’ll often find some of us here – and this week, you’ll find me here quite a bit 🙂 The full Operation Manual talks about MIDI keyboard entry, but the First Steps guide doesn’t: it needed to be a single set of clear steps for people to follow, and not all users have a MIDI keyboard. I wouldn’t recommend that anybody considers First Steps to be a full instruction manual! It’s a beginner’s guide, to get you started. There’s way more to Dorico than could be covered in First Steps (and nor should it, as a number of people have already told me they think First Steps is too big already). I’ve made a note to add to the full manual that when the caret is extended to multiple staves, playing chords on a MIDI keyboard results in those notes being auto-exploded across the caret’s staves. Not sure why that wasn’t already there, but I’ll get that added in the near future. One final tip: you don’t need to press the Chords button to start/stop chord input. There’s a key command for that, like there is for many things in Dorico – and that’s **Q** (for _q_words) --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/welcome-thread-for-finale-users/929784)._