I signed up on the other Finale forum. MM has made a huge mistake here. They obviously don't value their customers' opinions. Thanks, Ron (and others) for all your input and insight on this forum...

When activating smart word extensions, I see long word extensions, not long hyphens. You have one syllable lasting for several notes, including tied notes. This is what the word extension is showing....

Yes!

Well, this sucks. I PM'd Adam and responded on the sticky. Thanks for the info on the FB page and the other forum.

Huge mistake! Questions and answers from users are valuable. What SHOULD HAVE been done, years ago, as foretold and promised (yet another broken promise), would have been to migrate to new forum...