Copying bars

Dorico
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Hi. I tried to copy bars 13-21 and paste this into the empty bars at 43-51 but it didn’t work. I first highlighted bars 13-21 and it changed to orange. [i.e System Track]. I then clicked on the little white square on the right hand side. Then I went to bar 43 and clicked on the rest note of that bar and then pasted. All I got was a text box for verse 1 copied over. What am I doing wrong?
Thanks
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I think you forgot to Copy!

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I did use the white box on the system track. then i pasted that into bar 43

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That’s a selection box. It doesn’t copy anything to the clipboard. CTRL+C will do that.

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I also did try ctrl C. I would select the bars via the system track. Then Ctrl C and then first bar of destination then ctrl v. No go

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I noticed your project was in Engrave mode. Are you trying this in Engrave mode? You must be in Write mode to affect content changes. In Engrave mode you can only change position and appearance. This helps protect from accidental content changes while tweaking the engraving.

The general flow is to enter all the music info in Write mode before worrying about how it looks on the page in Engrave mode.

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In Write mode:

  1. Click on the system track in bar 13
  2. Shift+click on the system track in bar 21
  3. Click in the white box in the system track on the RH side of bar 21
  4. Ctrl+C to copy
  5. Select bar 43
  6. Ctrl + V to paste

It sounds like you have tried doing either #3 or #4, and you need to do both.

Now you’ll have one other issue, which is that you’ve copied and pasted the system break from bar 13, which has the “Wait for next system break” property activated – so all of the music after bar 43 will be crammed onto one system.

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In Engrave mode, select the system break at bar 43, and in the Properties panel, untick “Wait for next system break”.

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I did do it in write mode. Must’ve saved it in Engrave mode.

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Ah. ok. The engrave tip was what I needed to know. I also thought that the white box from the system track would copy but figured out the ctrl C part after. Thanks!