I migrated from Finale where you could enter a batch of previously entered lyrics with hyphens boom, boom, boom. I see no reply to others who comment this is tedious. C’mon programmers. Don’t make us buy an upgrade to a feature that should be there. I am also told it is in Sibelius.
What I tend to do is:
- Paste my lyrics into a free hyphenator program e.g. Lyric Hyphenator | Juicio Brennan
- Copy the hyphen’d text
- Open the Lyrics Popover and then Paste the syllables one by one as you go through the melody (pressing Space wherever you want a melisma)
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This is still tedious and doesn’t need to be.
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DanielMuzMurray is a user, not staff, and doesn’t have to give any kind of answer.
Yes, it would be nice if you could assign a whole string of lyrics in one go; and I’m sure it’s on the list of things to do.
Most of the text I deal with involves melismas and repetitions of words; which are different in each staff: so preparing the text correctly for Click Assignment was not without tedium in Finale, either! 
There are many features in Dorico 6 that are not in any other notation app: so, take your choice! 
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Correct, the complaining and pining for Finale is tedious and doesn’t need to be.
Many of us are former Finale users and are perfectly aware of the differences.
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You’re trying to be helpful and my frustration is showing. Please forgive my hasty reply.
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You’re right about my quick assumption, replying from my phone and I apologize to Dan. Yes, D seems feature rich. Re-typing still seems like a drag.
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You can hold down Command V to Paste, and it will do each syllable in turn while you’re holding it down.
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Yes, this is one of the few things I miss about Finale as well.
I remember someone posted a script for this many years ago. Script to write lyrics faster (Win Only)
That’s how I work, too:
Open the Lyrics Popover and then Paste the syllables boom, boom, boom