Adding a double bar line

Dorico
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I’m trying to add a double bar line after a pickup measure and I can’t figure out how. The help files say to use Ctl-Shift-N, but as soon as I hit Ctl-Shift playback starts. If I add the N it opens a new project. I’m finding these help files really lacking. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? And, I still can’t insert that double bar line…

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The instructions with Ctrl+Shift+N are about setting all barlines and the final barline of each flow. For one barline:

  • Select the barline you want to make double
  • Type Shift+B and enter double or || (two vertical pipe characters)

You can also input barlines from the panel on the right, in the Bars and Barlines section.

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Here are the latest instructions for inputting barlines, including an example for double barlines – these are for when you want the occasional double barline as an “override” to the default barlines that fill most of the music:

Here are instructions for changing the barline at the end of the flow (typically, a final barline)

And here are instructions for changing the default barline type throughout the whole flow (for example, if you want almost all barlines to be tick barlines)