Cues have stopped working

Dorico
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Suddenly I can’t create cues from my dedicated cue line. The top line in the screen shot is named Q, and as you can see I have in the past successfully created rhythmic cues for the bottom line in measures 43 and 47. Today I noticed that I had neglected to create the corresponding cue in m. 45 and couldn’t do it. When I typed Q into the popup no instrument appeared for me to choose. I can create cues from the other lines in the piece (there are 6 in total) but not from the Q line. I’m attaching a copy of this flow for people to look at.
Things I’ve tried: Renaming the top line; no help. Copy/pasting the cue from m. 47 into m. 45. This works. Restarting Dorico. No help. This flow is extracted from a larger file with a total of 14 flows and the problem is occurring in every flow I try.
CervettoOpIIv3 - IV.dorico (2.6 MB)

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What did work was this: I created a brand new cue line, named it Q1, and Pasted all the existing cues from line Q into the new Q1. Dorico’s Cue machine can see that line just fine; apparently something happened behind the scenes to Line Q. My immediate problem is thus solved, but I’d like to understand what happened.

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You can also select an existing cue (eg from bar 43) and alt-click it to bar 45.

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Yes, that’s what I meant by copy/pasting; but it’s a kludge. I’d like to understand what went wrong in the first place.

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I don’t see it as a kludge. For me it’s the fastest way to add cues and I use it all the time!

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The Instrument Name has been edited and has a newline character inserted. Therefore the first character is no longer a Q.

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Thanks! I knew it must be something obvious.