In reply to Charles Srstka.

This "Finale-like" note entry functionality is available in Sibelius 7 under the preferences menu.

Regarding note entry, Daniel has said this in a comment in the past: "I think it’s important up-front to know that our new application won’t work like either Sibelius or Finale, and folks who are using either of those applications (or indeed any other scoring application) had better expect a certain amount of retraining if they want to use our new application. We have the freedom to come up with a new, and hopefully better, way of handling note input and indeed practically every other aspect of a scoring application, and in my view we should have the courage of our convictions and follow that through to its fullest extent — which means no compatibility options to make our new application work like another old application."