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