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Alteration for Slot dialog box

How to get there

Choose Window > Advanced Tools.
Click the Note Mover tool . The Note Mover menu appears.
Click a measure; a handle appears on every notehead.
Select a handle by clicking it, several handles by SHIFT+clicking (or drag-enclosing) them, or all notes in the measure by choosing Edit > Select All.
Choose Note Mover > Search and Replace and click one of the criterion buttons (In All Octaves, In Selected Octave Only and Match Durations).

What it does

Finale’s Search and Replace command has several uses, including transforming a given pitch to its enharmonic equivalent or editing a recurrent motif throughout a score. The Alteration for Slot dialog box lets you specify how you want each occurrence (of a note or a motif) modified.

Alteration for Slot. If you’ve selected more than one note, the Slot Number identifies which of the notes you’re specifying the alteration for. Click Prev or Next to move to previous or subsequent notes (notes are numbered from bottom to top in chords, and from left to right in the measure).
No Transposition. Click this button if you want a note to be spelled as is.
Transpose. When you click this button, the Transposition dialog box appears, where you can specify the interval by which you want Finale to transpose this note (as specified by the Slot Number) each time it occurs in the musical pattern you originally selected. By applying a separate transposition to each note in a selected motif, you can, in effect, completely rewrite its melody.
Enharmonic. If you select this button, Finale will transpose the selected note (as identified by its Slot Number) to its enharmonic equivalent each time it occurs in the musical pattern you originally selected.
Prev • Next. You use the Prev and Next buttons to move you around from note to note (among the selected notes). Moving "forward" (the Next button) moves you from bottom to top in chords, and from left to right in the measure.
Set All. If you want to transpose all of the notes you originally selected by the same interval, specify a transposition using the Transpose or Enharmonic button. Then click Set All, which applies the transposition to all notes in the musical pattern.

Note: if you selected several notes, you can transpose all of them by choosing Set All.

OK • Cancel. Click OK to confirm the settings you’ve made in this dialog box and return to the score; the Search menu now appears, offering various commands for performing the search-and-replace procedure you’ve just specified. Click Cancel to tell Finale to ignore any changes you made in this dialog box and return you to the score.