I sometimes end up with a stray double sharp or double flat when doubling quickly. In a large orchestration, I would love to be able to find them to respell them when necessary. Filter notes by pitch is not useful in this scenario because it could be on any pitch. Right now I see filters for “all sharp notes” and “all flat notes” which will include sharps and double sharps. What about a filter, though, for filtering only double sharps/flats? If it doesn’t exist I think that would be very helpful for proofreading to ensure there aren’t any stray oddities.
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This has come up before. Let’s hope this specific kind of filtering will become possible eventually.
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You can do a Write>Transpose at the Unison and use the respell to avoid double sharps/flats option.
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I usually just use Shift+I with the following: ax=b, bx=c#, cx=d, dx=e, ex=f#, fx=g, gx=a, abb=g, bbb=a, cbb=bb, dbb=c, ebb=d, fbb=eb, gbb=f
Obviously you can save it as a script or StreamDeck button too.
@Janus’s solution works great too. I’m not sure if I can figure out how to automate it as a SD button without having to click that setting though. It doesn’t seem to stick between sessions.
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My idea is a little more focused on finding/filtering these notes in the first place – in a larger score it might be easy to miss one (mistaken) double sharp on one staff in measure 247!
This way I could search, review and isolate all such notes in my score before doing any respelling. If there is a double sharp in my score, there might be a reason it could work better on such a transposing instrument. But of course, I have to see where they are first. I wouldn’t necessarily want to do any kind of select all > batch respelling across the entire score which could open up an entirely different can of worms!
I consider it more like a spell-checker, which lets you review through any potential oddities, before commiting a new spelling, rather than letting the computer proofread everything and hoping for the best 
But I think Janus’ suggestion when I’ve found these notes, and I’m sure I’d like to respell, is fantastic – never knew about that one before. Thanks!
My suggestion does not need you to know if, or where, a double sharp/flat exists!
Just select all and then apply the Transpose tool.
Sorry I wasn’t clear in my earlier post – I’m definitely not looking to respell any and all double sharps or flats! Sometimes they are intentional. I want to find the ones which somehow got past me when doubling about in a hurry.
Just like my spell-checker analogy, I like being able to go through word-by-word to ensure the re-spelling is what I want in context (such as making sure people’s names, technical or unusual terms which are intentionally spelled differently, don’t get accidentally changed). Obviously you wouldn’t want a broad stroke re-spelling. Similarly, I wouldn’t want to wipe out intentional double sharps (especially since I also use a lot of modulation and no key signatures these days). So the nature of what I meant was that I’d like to review all double sharps & flats to make sure they are correct and not a mistake, and if however I spot some incorrect ones, then decide to respell using transpose.
I’m not sure what kind of harp has pedals for double flats or sharps; so that reason for preserving them may not be the best example even though I accept your premise in other cases.
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Whoops, total brain fart, no idea why I said that. To think, I even took a class on harp writing, perhaps it’s time to review my notes…
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I feel you, @wing. Harps are so difficult to do right.
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Just put this on a SD button. Fantastic, thank you
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