Graphical MIDI Tools (GMT) is a Sibelius plug-in by that cleverly and ingeniously takes full advantage of Sibelius's extended features such as colored objects, custom text, hidden MIDI messages, and more.
An overview of working with the text style and typography features in SIbelius, such as using the Ribbon, text frames, angled and vertical text, and hierarchical text styles
The Check Pizzicatos plug-in ships with Sibelius and it has saved me many minutes of work on many scores, and saved many minutes of rehearsal time. Its sole purpose is to locate suspect arco and pizz. markings in your score.
Stay current on notation software compatibility with macOS 10.15 Catalina with this Scoring Notes post, just updated with more information about Finale Music Notation Software.
An essential element of Sibelius's dynamic parts feature is the ability to make certain changes in a part without affecting the score. This extends to the ability to have different names for instruments in parts than what they are in the score.
Essential to any good printed part layout is the page turn. The easiest way to check for good page turns on-screen is to view the music as a two-page spread. We'll quickly run through how to view music this way in all the major desktop music notation applications as well as in Adobe Acrobat and Mac Preview.
You can move notes and rests horizontally in Sibelius, which we call “sliding” notes. Learn how to do it in this brief tutorial.
An overview of 10 Ribbon features in Sibelius.