Option - and + seems to work for enharmonic equivalent.
Thank you judddanby! I had found that out by the time I saw this. What’s frustrating is that it isn’t the first thing that pops up when you’re trying to learn it. This seems like such a universally used basic function. I admit that I’m looking forward to finding all the shortcuts I knew in Finale because so many aspects of the program seem better.
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A “good friend” (from the Dorico Resources page:
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Agree. When I search “enharmonic equivalent” currently Respelling notes is the 8th result. Kind of far down, if you ask me.
On the other hand, I think this is the sort of thing you learn in the First Steps tutorials.
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Agreed. For my money, the glossary entry for enharmonic equivalent would be a great candidate for first position in the results, followed by *Respelling Notes."
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It would be nice if it was possible for the search function to prioritise methodology over passing references.
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Just saw this thread and it’s relevant to a pain point I had today regarding harmonic spellings that were bizarre. In the end someone mentioned there’s a preference to have Dorico not change spellings based on MIDI keyboard input so I’m hoping that solves my problem. But I had to go through nearly measure by measure and invoke respelling automatically (I mapped it to CMD-R on my Mac) and that fixed it. But before I did that I had measures where a b-natural was next to a Cb and there were double flats as well. All fixed but definitely surprised Dorico didn’t act consistently. Again, that preference may hopefully prevent this as I enter notes with an old Ensoniq synth. Good suggestions in this thread.
If you have many notes to respell select the whole range and invoke the shift-I popover: it gives you a lot of options, for example „g#=ab, fb=e“ etc
scroll down to „Pitch mapping“ - you will be delighted!
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Wow, never saw that. Amazing!
The handy PDF version:
Welcome to the forum @fleschtonerecords – sorry to hear you haven’t so far had the best experience using the manual.
Can you share a link or clarify where you read this? I ask because that doesn’t sound like how I phrase things in the manual (or at least, not for some time) and I’m wondering if you’ve been using an AI tool rather than our manual directly. Unfortunately, AI tools (whilst apparently helping some users) can hallucinate answers that aren’t accurate (eg I’ve seen responses tell users to go to the wrong place, for an option that also doesn’t exist anyway).
To answer your question: how rests get presented by default depends in the first instance on the prevailing time signature (ie what’s the meter, is it 6/8 or 3/4, etc) and the Notation Options you’ve set for Note Grouping and Rests for that flow.
Beyond those higher-level settings, if you’re still not able to get the result you want, you can use Force Duration.
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I’ll see what I can do to improve this, but also a number of things can have enharmonic equivalents and there’s only so psychic the search can be!
Thanks, Lillie — I’m psyched! 
Lillie’s tip about this is that method pages are headed with a participle verb, such as “Respelling notes”, while other page headings are just nouns. So search for the action rather than the type of object.
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Hi all - chiming in a bit late on this “respell enharmonic” issue. I too come from Finale, and am accustomed to using the 9 key to “flip” the enharmonic spelling to/from sharp/flat. Here’s my workaround:
- I reprogrammed the rhythmic value cues, so 5 is now my quarter note, like in Finale. (Old habits, in this case, die REAL hard.) Also, in reprogramming those numbers, I included BOTH the numbers AND the numbers on the number pad, as I work very quickly in Finale with one hand on the MIDI keyboard and the other on the number pad.
- The highest number key programmed to a rhythmic value is now 7, for a whole note (I almost never need double whole notes).
- I reprogrammed the “respell using note name above” to be the 9 key (again, both the number and the number pad number), and also programmed “respell using note name below” to 8.
This ALMOST matches the functionality of Finale; I just have to press either 8 or 9 depending on how I’m respelling a note, which isn’t such a bad thing. I initially tried programming the 9 key to the “Respell Notes Automatically” function, but that particular function brings up a dialog window, thus slowing me down, and often not giving me my desired result anyway.
Hope this might help some folks.