Changing the key

If you use the Setup Wizard, you should start off with the correct key signature for your piece every time. But let’s say you change your mind after entering in the music. We’ll change the key for our folk song “Oh Susannah.”

1. Click the Key Signature Tool  .  
2. Double-click the first measure (within the staff lines to the right of the time signature). The measure highlights and a dialog box appears. Finale displays a dialog box when it’s requesting some information from you. In this particular dialog box, you use the scroll bar to select a new key. Click the up arrow to add sharps to the key signature or subtract flats. Click the down arrow to add flats or subtract sharps.

3. Click the up arrow on the scroll bar twice, so that no sharps or flats appears. Now look at the bottom of the dialog box: Finale lets you specify whether or not you want to transpose the notes when you change the key signature. Leave the settings as they are; you’re transposing the song up a whole step, to C.

Now specify what region of measures you want to be affected by the new key.

4. Click the radio button for “Measure 1 Through End of Piece.”  
5. Click OK. The dialog box goes away, and your piece is instantly transposed to the key of C.

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