Can you import a NotePad composition into PrintMusic?

[chillowack]

I composed a piano piece in NotePad, which I would now like to import into the piano score part of a full orchestral score in PrintMusic.

Is this possible, and if so, how is it done?

[miker]

Nothing to import. Just open PrintMusic, and open the file.
IMPORTANT: The version of PM must be the same, or newer, than the version of NotePad. This is true across the entire Finale line.

[chillowack]

I apologize, I think my Subject header must have misled you--but it didn't have enough space for my full question.

Let me try again:

I'm not looking to simply open up a Notepad piece in PrintMusic--I know how to do that.

What I'm trying to do is import a Notepad piano piece into the "piano" space of a full PrintMusic orchestral score.

Now, if I just open the piece in PrintMusic, it automatically opens as a piano-only piece, with no other instruments cued up: and that's not what I want. I want the full complement of instruments, with piano at the bottom. You know, an orchestral score.

In other words, I don't want to have to re-compose my piano score, just because PrintMusic doesn't have some way to cut and paste the work I've already done.

See what I mean? There's got to be some simple functionality for this.

[michelp]

Can't you open both documents (the empty score, with an empty piano, and the piano document), and then select and copy the piano part and paste into the full score ?

[miker]

Michelp is correct. Have both docs open, and then you can copy and paste the music from the piano staves over, or, simply, drag it.

[chillowack]

Thank you, this worked.