Dorico having issues with pasting written notes in slash voice, and not exploding properly

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Hello. I am hoping someone can help me identify the cause and solution of this uneven operation in Dorico. I frequently need to ‘explode’ parts (e.g. arranged horn sections or string sections in chords). The videos suggest the procedure is to copy the line with the chords, select the bars in the staves those chords go into, then Paste Special > Explode. I find this rarely works well, if at all. Here are the issues I am finding:

  1. Dorico pastes the parts in slash voice, and when you select Write > Create Voice you spend more time eliminating rests and trying to join unconnected parts between voices that it is simpler to copy the part into multiple staves and eliminate the notes you don’t want (not very efficient). Why is Dorico pasting into slash voice? How can that be prevented?
  2. When you have a part with a combination of unisons, 2-note chords and 3-note chords, sometimes Dorico puts the top line as written, and duplicates the bottom line into all otters staves. Sometime note, even leaving entire staves blank. It there a rhyme or reason to this process? How can lines combining unisons and chords of various sizes be properly exploded? All suggestions gratefully appreciated.
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Hello. I am hoping someone can help me identify the cause and solution of this uneven operation in Dorico.

When I copy a written line (for example, a unison horn line) and paste it in another horn part, sometimes Dorico pastes it is Slash voice. Why? If I have (for example) pasted a drum or rhythm cue in rhythm voice before that part, does Dorico somewhat format or corrupt all remaining bars into a non-regular voice? How can I prevent this behaviour from happening?

All suggestions greatly appreciated.

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You are going to have to provide an example file, so people can see what is going on.
(Personally I’ve never had explode create a slash voice)

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Do you want screen shots, or a Dorico file? If Dorico file, I will have to make a duplicate and delete some parts and re-explode. Because no one had replied after 3 days, I completed the parts using ‘brute force’; copy the 3-note chords into each of 3 parts and delete 2 notes from each chord x 3.

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File generally means Dorico file. Folks who want a screenshot generally ask for a screenshot.