Albert I really appreciate this info. I do have Sonar X2 btw...Man I was looking for the "Key" button for a while now lol...thanks...Also, I guess I could delete the bars of rest (after I isolate the horn part so I'm only dealing with one part at a time) but can I write the numbers in there to show bars of rest, add repeats, change the parts that are computer literate (meaning getting rid of 16th note rests to create phrasing that looks familiar), codas...things of that nature, or does this only print the notes as they appear in the staff view? Sooo. do I need some sort of notation program to do this right? I need some charts for a gig I'm doing next week, and was hoping Sonar X2 could do that....although I'm guessing it won't :(
 
On a personal note...I would love to talk to you about the cakewalk stuff, especially since we write charts...I feel we might have info that could be beneficial to both of us...since I'm new here and don't know how to do this...PM me if you could use an intelligent friend to bounce things off of...I know I could...ty...Jason216

Jason,
 
Glad it helps. Feel free to PM me. In keeping with the spirit of the forum, posting questions to the forum publicly help others too, as well as reaching out to more forum members for answers. 
 
I'm using the staff view mainly for viewing the arrangement and not for editing. I use the midi track for recording (using a midi keyboard), and piano roll for editing, so I'm not familiar with staff view edits.

Thank you guys for all the help. I have most of my issues solved. Music Creator will do exactly what I need.
 
I also found a nice piece of music notation software that's free and extremely easy to use. For those interested... Musescore(dot org) is a very nice program for scoring. I was writing charts within a few minutes. Lots of drag and drop items and automatic bar rest features etc... All i did was save a file, say the trumpet part, (in MC) as a midi file...bring it into Musescore and then transposed the whole chart up a step (actually 2...maj second) with one click...changed the key (just dragged in the correct key signiture)...highlighted some phrases that were computer literate and not very musical (like changing a 16th note with a 16th note rest into an 8th note just by clicking on the note I wanted changed...that's pretty cool for a free program). Anyway google it if you need some free notation software...Again thanks
Jason216 

For what it's worth, MC and all other Cakewalk programs I've owned have a Transpose feature. Just right-click in the MIDI track's FX bin and select Transpose, select some options and it'a done.
Or select the MIDI track, click Process at the top, choose Transpose from the list and the same effect GUI will appear allowing you to do the same thing, but is permanent once you click OK (unless you Undo or close the project without saving.