I was looking for this feature also. Coming from Finale, this is really weird (and basically I don’t know any other software that has this behavior).
The possibility to have two separate undo options (undo action/edit and undo select) would be useful. And and option for “Undo all events” for users that like or are used to the current system.
Hi @fvasquez and @Michael_English , are you aware that there is now an History, to be found in the Edit menu? So you can skip not only the selections, but everything that you have done.:
And welcome to the Forum!
Still to this day I really wish they would add the menu preference to not add selections to undo/redo stack… Yesterday I was trying to go through this history list and while it is indeed helpful than before, sometimes if you were doing tons of selections you’re faced with a very long scrolling list that says “Select Select Select” over and over for miles… 
I totally understand the reason some users like having selections in their undo/redo stack but after years with Dorico I still hate it 
The accent is on the word “some”.
Thanks, I know about that history menu and it’s useful in special cases, but I don’t think it’s the solution. As someone mentioned, you also have to navegate through many “selection” items on the list and it takes a few steps.
I hope in the future more “undo” options are integrated to customize that aspect, Dorico is great, I’ve been learning really fast how to use it. But this is something that I’m really not getting used to, because seems “unnatural”. Imagine in Microsoft Word having to press CTRL+Z for every step you moved the cursor with your arrow keys.
Maybe for users that work mostly with the mouse is less problematic, but I work mostly with my notebook keyboard -using shortcuts- so I navigate with the arrow keys. And every movement is considered “selection”.
Haha, not sure I follow? Yeah, it seems pretty split 50/50 as to the people who like it. Would love a menu preference finally so everyone can be happy (for a time).
Worst of all is when you make a bunch of undos, and then you want to listen back to what you had before so you select a note and use ‘P’ to play from selected… then if you change your mind and want to redo to the music you had, too bad. Your selection completely wiped it out. Sad times.
@wing Yes! It would be cool to have a feature to try ideas without destroying the original (like hidden “idea layers” that you can switch, but only one is visible and actually plays). But that’s clearly more complicated and maybe for another topic.
About the History list from Edit menu. You cannot skip Selections made between two steps you need to Undo only them. So from this view we really need an option that filter selection actions out.
Please add me to the list of people who would LOVE to have an option to eliminate selection from the undo/redo chain. I can’t think of a situation when I’ve ever found that desirable, and it’s really quite a “time tax” on Dorico’s otherwise extremely efficient work flow. Not trying to take anything away from anyone, just asking for a preference to include or not include selection. 
It should definitely be a switchable option. I love undoing (steps in) selections.
And me.
Three years later…
I bought Dorico 5 years back. Why? Because Cubase Score section didn’t meet my needs. A lot has changed since Cubase 14 Pro. Now Cubase Score section in some specific things is more intellectual than Dorico. Now we will wait for 2-3 years to have Cubase Score features in Dorico? Of course! Because we love Dorico <3
Please, make Undo/Redo option! Cubase don’t have such problem because no one were asking to include selection into undo stack, but the amount of changes in the project is similar if not more times more.
Never seen such a thing on any music soft ware. Unusefull and a big lack of time to my POV.
Edit: Wrong information removed
Thanks a lot for the info!
I think this has been mentioned before, and I don’t think this option does what is being requested—that is, there is no way to get Dorico to exclude selection activity from the undo stack.
(I’m not at my computer and can’t tell you what the option actually does, but I think it determines whether Dorico scrolls a new area into view if the action being undone applies to notes not currently visible.)
I used to think that way. Then I found it has saved me significant time over the years. After spending time and effort selecting multiple particular items (or applying various selection filters) only to perform the wrong action or accidentally select something else (mouse bump or didn’t have the ctrl key down), being able to undo to a specific selection state rather than starting over from scratch is quite nice.
Ha ha ha! thanks but I’ve been working for the last 30 years without it and it is still good enough for me!
No it has not, this gets mentioned all the time but that option does not exclude selections from undo/redo.
Thanks for pointing this out. I removed my post.
