Search and replace
Note: To search and replace text, see Text Search and Replace dialog box.
You can search for a pitch, a specific
pitch-and-rhythm combination, or even an entire motif anywhere in a score
and modify every occurrence in one of several ways. For example, you can flip every occurrence
of a G
to its enharmonic equivalent (F
),
or change two of the notes in a recurrent theme.
-
Choose Window >
Advanced Tools. Click the Note Mover tool
. Click the measure containing
the first occurrence of the note you want to change. A handle
appears on each notehead.
- Select the notes to be changed. Select
one note by clicking, additional notes by SHIFT+clicking, a group of
notes by drag-enclosing, and additional groups of notes by shift–drag-enclosing.
Note that you can select nonadjacent notes, as long as they’re in the
same measure.
- Choose Note Mover > Search and Replace. The Search and Replace dialog box
appears, letting you further specify criteria for the search-and-replace
process. If you want Finale to look for the selected notes only in their
original octave, select In Selected Octave
Only. If you
want to search for the selected notes in any octave, select
In All Octaves.
Furthermore, you can confine the search-and-replace process to notes with
the same rhythmic values by checking Match
Duration.
With all of these options, Finale considers
the scale degrees of the selected notes. For example, if you’re searching for
a C in the key of C, Finale won’t consider C in the key of F a match.
Instead, it will consider F a match in the key of F.
- Click OK.
The Alteration for Slot dialog
box appears, asking what sort of transposition you want to apply. You
can specify a different transposition for each of the selected notes;
in effect, you have the option of completely rewriting a selected motif.
- Click Transpose to
specify a transposition option for the first selected note (or click Enharmonic
to flip the note to its enharmonic equivalent).
If you click Transpose, a dialog box appears, in which you can
specify the precise transposition that you want to apply to the note.
Make your selections from the drop-down
list, and then
click OK.
If you’ve selected
several notes, all of which are to receive the same transposition, click
Set All. The transposition you just specified will be assigned to all
selected notes. Skip to step 7.
- If more than one note was selected, click Next.
The number in “Slot (#),” advances. (A “slot”
is a selected note; Finale numbers them from bottom to top within a chord,
and from left to right in the measure.) Set the transposition option for
this note in the same way. Continue through the selected notes (“slots”),
clicking Prev or Next as necessary, and setting the transposition option
for each.
- Click OK (or press ENTER).
A new menu, Search, appears. Its commands are Find, which finds the next
occurrence of notes matching your criteria; Replace, which modifies the
currently selected notes according to your transposition specifications;
Replace then Find, which modifies the current notes and then finds the
next occurrence; and Replace All, which reads through your piece, measure
by measure, in every staff, changing all notes that meet your search criteria.
- Choose a command from the Search menu.
The Replace All command may take Finale some time to complete.
- Choose Search > Quit Search.
