Key Signature Tool

Click this tool, then double-click the measure where you want to change the key signature; the Key Signature dialog box appears, from which you can select the new key. (You can also access the Nonstandard Key Signature dialog box if you want to create nonstandard or nonlinear key signatures.) You can also specify whether or not you want any music that's already in the affected measures to be transposed into the new key. You can also use the mouse to drag-enclose a region for a key change.

You can create Key Signature Metatools—one-keystroke equivalents for key changes—which can be especially useful if you need to insert many key changes in your music (or if you’ve created complex nonstandard key signatures).

To program a Key Signature Metatool

Click the Key Signature Tool $image\Key_Signature_Tool.gif$ .
Press Shift and a number key or a letter. Finale displays the Key Signature dialog box; choose the key signature you want to correspond to the number or letter you pressed.
Click OK (or press return).

To use a Key Signature Metatool

Click the Key Signature Tool $image\Key_Signature_Tool.gif$ .
Select a region.
While pressing the number or letter corresponding to the Metatool you programmed, double-click a measure or drag-select and double-click measures. Finale changes the key signature over the range of measures you selected.

Contextual menus are reached by Control-clicking on the handle of an object or a selected region of measures. A contextual menu will be displayed where you can select a key signature. Control-click a selected region of measures and choose an option from the context menu that appears to change the key signature for that region.

Menu item	What it does
C Major	Sets the key signature to C Major
G Major	Sets the key signature to G Major
D Major	Sets the key signature to D Major
A Major	Sets the key signature to A Major
E Major	Sets the key signature to E Major
F Major	Sets the key signature to F Major
Bb Major	Sets the key signature to Bb Major
Eb Major	Sets the key signature to Eb Major
Ab Major	Sets the key signature to Ab Major
A minor	Sets the key signature to A minor
E minor	Sets the key signature to E minor
B minor	Sets the key signature to B minor
F# minor	Sets the key signature to F# minor
C# minor	Sets the key signature to C# minor
D minor	Sets the key signature to D minor
G minor	Sets the key signature to G minor
C minor	Sets the key signature to C minor
F minor	Sets the key signature to F minor
Other	Opens the Key Signature dialog box where you can define a key signature