Importing symbols that I cannot find in Finale 25

[Pimbimbo]

I just began using a trial version of Finale 25 (Windows). I write mainly for guitar. I cannot find the typical symbol for indicating which string is preferred for playing a particular note. This is a small circle, in which are the numbers 1-6. So a circle with a 1 indicates play on 1st string. Can this symbol be created or otherwise imported into Finale?

[motet]

You could certainly make them with the Shape Designer but there is likely a font somewhere that has such.

[Peter Thomsen]

You could certainly make them with the Shape Designer but there is likely a font somewhere that has such.

Indeed, there are many fonts with encircled numbers.
Here are a few of them:

Arial Unicode MS
Batang
Fang Song
Gulim
GungSeo
Hannotate
HanziPen
Heiti
Hiragino
Kaiti
MS Gothic
Nanum
Osaka
PingFang
Songti
STIXGeneral
Yuanti
YuGothic
YuMincho
Yuppi

[michelp]

Check the guitar templates provided with Finale, they have them, too.

[motet]

Oh, duh. There they are in the "String" category, just a text number with a circle enclosure.

[Charles Lawrence]

Here is yet another link to a Guitar Strings font.

http://hindson.com.au/info/free/free-fo ... -download/

While you can take these characters right from the font as text, I would suggest that you make expressions or articulations using the characters from the font. Expressions would be much easier and faster to use than text characters directly from the font. They could be put into an expression category to help manage and group the symbols.