Is there currently such function?
Just bought it today and still very new to it, great layout overall.
Yes: hold Alt and press - (hyphen) to respell using the note name below the current note name, or = (equals) to respell using the note name above the current note name.
Sorry, I meant is there a function to turn all flats to sharp/ sharp to flat in the entire score instantly with a click of a button.
No, Iām afraid not (and I confess I canāt think of a situation where this would be likely to do exactly what you would really want).
The function would be very useful for people like me who compose in logic and import midi track from logic to advance scoring tool, and put it into correct key instantly. Without having to change notes one by one.
I hope Dorico will be able to do this in the future 
as āSā do, to respell all flats to sharp/ sharp to flats.
Hi Daniel and ronny,
Firstly, Daniel, thank you very much for the program. I can tell already that it is going to be superior to the other two (and Iāve used both of them on and off over the past 25 years)! Dorico really has some ādream come trueā features for me.
And another would be the one that ronny wants. Iād REALLY (really) like to be able to change all accidentals to flats (or sharps) all in one blow.
Thanks,
John
Old thread here I know, but one situation Iāve come across that seems related to this: If I have a range of music that is in, say, the key of G# Maj, and I want everything expressed instead in Ab Maj (including chord symbols and note spellings). Is there a way to do this in one swoop, without manually flipping every note and chord symbol? Changing the key doesnāt seem to affect chord and note spellings.
EDIT: After a little more experimenting, it seems I can at least select all the notes at once, and use the Respell command to flip them all at once. This doesnāt work on chord symbols though.
You should use the Write > Transpose dialog to transpose up by a diminished second.
ronnycmusic, you are not alone with your suggestionš
It works! A bit of mental gymnastics to conceptualize transposing by a diminished second, but it does get the job done. Thanks Daniel!
Solution:
select all notes ā Filter āAll sharp notesā or āall flat notesā ā apply the desired respelling with the shortcuts
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This is a good one. COuld there be a sort cut for it?
You can certainly assign a shortcut to it, yes, on the Key Commands page of Preferences. Or you could access it via the jump bar, and even assign a shorter jump bar alias if itās something you expect to use a lot.
Hi @wrldwdarr
this is strange. It should appear on the menu, or by right clicking on the selection (with the list in this last way, only showing what is possible to do with the selection).
Witch version of Dorico are you using? (but I confirmed just now that this options was added in Dorico 1.2 !!!)
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For some reason, when I checked āabout Doricoāāit said I was using Elements!
Then I shut the program down, opened and checked again and it was Pro!
Is there a way that I inadvertently switched to Elements???
Yes: if you press alt when you click on the Dorico icon when starting up, you open Elements, if you press command (control on windows)+alt (only for Mac) you start SE.
This can be very handy if you want to see what is doable with lower versions if you for example have to assign some homework to students that have a lower version.
Ah thatās what happened. I was having trouble starting Dorico again bc of a ton of VSTs which repopulated (without my wanting) to the āallowā side. So I tried using āoptionā to start, bc that by-passed the VSTs and allowed me to startup.
Got it. Thanks!
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