Forcing enharmonic?

Dorico
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I’m entering the following phrase a lot:

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When I get to the 3rd bar, I play an Eb on the MIDI keyboard, and Dorico duly writes an E flat. But when I play the E natural, Dorico changes the Eb to a D#. Is there any way to ‘lock’ or ‘force’ the original spelling, to pre-empt Dorico’s change?

I can ‘toggle’ the enharmonic spelling to D# and back to Eb, with Alt - =, but that’s a bit of a faff.

I could enter the second note with the QWERTY keyboard, which also seems to hold. Any more?

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Here’s info about Dorico’s interpretation of accidentals when inputting via MIDI, and how to disable it.

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Thanks, Lillie. Though I’m not sure I want to disable it permanently, as it is mostly useful.

But notation is all about the 5% of cases when we want something else!

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If you don’t have any d sharps elsewhere, you could use the filter by pitch and respell them all at once without bothering with anything else.

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