After entry or edit, arrowing to a different kind of object

Dorico
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Here’s a question about selection behavior with the arrows after an entry or edit.

Let’s say I enter a few notes, now I add a slur to them. I’d like to ‘arrow back’ to some previous notes to add a slur there as well. Instead of the back arrow taking me to the entries in the previous bar, it takes me (because the new slur is still selected) to the previous slur which may be 7 or 8 measures back. The same thing occurs with dynamics and text as well. Using the right and left arrows when an object is selected always takes me to previous or next object of the same type (unless there are no more in that direction.)

While I can understand the logic here, I’m not often editing all my dynamics for a passage, or adjusting all the existing slurs. What happen much more frequently is editing all types of items, usually notes.

Is there a preference somewhere to say that when ‘arrowing’ go to the next object of any kind instead of to the object of the same kind? While the present behavior does have some applicability, it would be great if it could be changed with a preference.

A similar issue exists with the up and down arrows - when a dynamic or slur or text is selected, the up and down arrows will not take me to the line above or below (or to the pitches above the dynamic). This forces me to ‘unselect’ the item to move to a different line.

Hoping this is all a menu option I haven’t found yet.

thanks - Michael

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To my knowledge, no. But you can hit Tab to switch between different kinds of items.

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Ah I had no idea about that - thanks!

I still think I’d prefer to turn off the behavior if possible - right now the tab is one more key to have to press for simple navigation around the screen.

I’t would be great if there were a toggle to turn this behavior off and then turn it back on if I sometime decide to adjust all my successive dynamics or slurs (a rather unlikely scenario for me.)