Chaning all sharps to flats and double sharps to naturals
I know I asked this question many weeks ago but lost the thread. I have a work in which the keys have changed and now I want to be in E flat. I was in a sharp key and when I go to the transpose function to take everything down a minor second, the results are now a mess of sharps and double sharps instead of flats as in the key of E flat. What is the best way to get all of the spellings to coincide with the key of E flat. and take out all of the sharps and double sharps. I surely don't want to do this manually one bar at a time. HELP please.
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Without seeing the score, it's hard to give really good advice, but my guess is, you transposed from E, in which case minor second was the wrong interval to transpose - should have been augmented unison. Or simply tranposed by key rather than by interval. But no matter, it's a simple matter to respell everything to favor flats: just Ctrl+A to select all, hit up arrow to transpose up a half step (which will favor sharp spellings), then down arrow to transpose down (which will favor flat spellings). Should set most things the way you'd want, if I am understanding the situation correctly.
If that doesn't solve your problem, please post the specific score you are having problems with and we can suggest better solutions.