I so often post here with problems finding how to do things, that others solve for me.
Today I was amazed to find a use for the Halve Note Duration command. Not in a contrapuntal baroque piece, but in Beethoven’s Leonore II Overture, where the Allegro theme at the end is notated in half values. I think that if I had to do this trick again, it would actually be faster than inputting the notes afresh.
Bravo Dorico! 
David