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ahah.
Choose the bugle, then change the key signature to G. That's the secret! Thank you!

By categories, I was referring to the menus and tabs named in alex's post. The Document menu didn't contain Staff Attributes. When I did find the Staff Attributes menu, it did not have any mention of transposition. When I assign the instrument to a staff, the key signature changes on the score; it a...

Alas. I evidently have a different version of Finale, as I cannot find the categories you mention. I have no Staff Attributes menu under the Documents tab, nor anywhere else. I've tried using the expressions tool to create a playback 5 steps down, but somehow ended up losing half the document. I sha...

I will give this a try as soon as I can get out of the hospital (flu).
I will let you know how I make out!.
Thank you.

Thanks for answering; I think that's where the answer is. I'm still not sure how to manage it, though. When I tried it, it transposed my manuscript rather than change the pitch of the playback. But I did mean what I said: If I compose a song in C in the score, I want it to match the pitch of the G B...

I inherited a Finale File for arranging for drum corps (old school G bugles). It automatically transposes the playback. I have no idea how that was accomplished, and I would love to know how to adjust playback to do that; in other words, compose in C on the manuscript, but hear it back in G.