I am just finishing a short choral piece. It originally took up five pages but now, after some tweaking, it only occupies four. This has left me with a blank fifth page and I cannot see how to delete it. Can anyone enlighten me, please?
Engrave modeâŚ
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Alain
Thank you, Alain. This didnât work for me at first, but I think there must have been something invisible on the page because once I had tidied things up somewhat the page was deleted.
However, I note that the icon is not the expected âdustbinâ and that it is labelled âRemove Overridesâ, so I suspect that this is not a simple erase button. Perhaps the documentation will eventually reveal all.
You should find that the Pages section of the right-hand panel in Engrave mode shows you that the fifth page has an override of some kind by virtue of the fact that it shows a red triangle in one corner. An overridden page wonât be deleted automatically by Dorico: you have to select it and click Remove Overrides, which in the case of an otherwise empty page (because itâs beyond the end of the music) will delete it.
I had a similar problem, and quitting Dorico and relaunching solved the problem⌠I thought it could be a small bug.
I am trying to delete two pages in the middle of a score that have no overrides, but still I canât find a way to delete them. Dorico doesnât delete them either.
If you attach the troublesome project here (zip it up first) and let me know which layout(s) youâre trying to delete pages from, Iâll be happy to take a look. If youâre trying to delete pages that have no overrides, then presumably they simply have music on them, in which case the way to delete those pages is to delete the music that is currently shown on those pages.
Thanks, Daniel. I was able to get the pages deleted by Dorico. I am still learning the software, only worked with it for the last 2 days and it was a little confusing for me, but I believe I am getting the hang of it now. Itâs actually very straight forward now I understand it.
How do I do the same, but in Elements?
In Elements, unfortunately if youâve ended up with page overrides, your only option is to create a new layout in the Layouts panal in Setup mode and use that. You canât clear page overrides in Elements except by deleting the layout altogether. (I donât think this is ideal, by the way, and Iâve been thinking a lot recently about trying to make some of the limitations in Elements a bit more nuanced so that these kinds of obstacles are easier to overcome.)
I have the same problem. When I delete extra empty bars at the end of piece, I end up with an empty blank page.
Canât find any intelligible instructions on how to simply delete the blank page.
Dorico Elements 4.3
Welcome to the forum @brywalker ! Can you share your project? Either in this thread or you can message it to me privately.
This sounds as if you may have a page override on the final page you cannot delete. Check in Engrave mode to see if there is a red triangle in the corner of that page, and if so, use the context menu form that page to clear the override.
Dorico Elements doesnât have the right panel in Engrave mode, so the method to remove page overrides is a little different. See here: Removing page template overrides
Iâd still be interested to see the project though, in case the reasons for the page overrides can be solved another way (e.g. by adding titles, composer etc in Project Info, or editing the flow heading template)
Thanks!
You showed me the path and I think I figured it out.
It seems to be related to the flow heading.
When I delete the headings by any method, the last blank page goes away.
Unfortunately, for me this is a âwork around.â
For now, I will NOT put much effort into the headings until the final piece is done.
Thanks again!
If you donât want flow headings, you can hide them for the whole layout.
If you donât want the little running header at the very top of the page, that in general requires Dorico Pro, as it involved editing the underlying page template.
Make sure that youâre adding flow titles and any other information like that in the Project Info dialog, rather than by double-clicking on the page.
Yeah, I wasnât using the Project Info Dialog either.
Thanks again, very helpful!