I’m trying to set up a template that I can use for lead sheets. I want the project title to be left justified and the instrument name to be right justified. I go into the template for the first page, change the formatting for those two elements, then save as a project template. When I go back into that template, the formatting appears correctly for a moment and then it reverts back to the title being centered and the part name being on the left. I have repeated this process several times to no avail. To be clear: I am working in the templates (not creating overrides), I am getting the formatting the way I want it - check all of the layout to see that it is correct, then save a new template. When I launch that template, it appears correct for only a moment and then reverts to Dorico’s defaults, not the settings I saved off. Any ideas?
Can you post a screenhot? I’m guessing not, since you’re new to the forum (it takes time to “earn” forum privileges).
When you made the change, did you copy L to R?
I did copy L to R. Yes.
Odd. Can you share the project here?
Hi @DrBill,
probably the other answers are more correct than mine 
I leave mine here below, in any case… :
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you are showing opening your projects, and then Dorico probably switches to the Full Score Layout. Try to switch to the Part layout from the upper part of the window:
And make sure that you edited the Part First Page template. But if you share your project as @dan_kreider suggested, we can see what is going on.
Anyway (as an example) this is probably what you want?:
part firs page template customisation.dorico (466.0 KB)
Either set up (and use) Paragraph Styles that have the alignment and other formatting baked in, or use File > New from template…
If you use the Hub to create new projects from templates, the text in the text frames is recreated and it won’t retain manual overrides to the text formatting.
(I don’t like this, and it has tripped me up in the past, but this is how it works.)
It shows the full score first, of course. When I created the template, I went through and worked on the part layouts as well as the full score. No luck. Someone on another forum just suggested to me that I change it in Paragraph Styles, rather than in the template itself (which is counter intuitive) but it worked. I saved it off and loaded it back in and the formatting is correct. It’s a bug, to be sure, that saving it in the template itself doesn’t work – or to think you have to work the frames from Paragraph Styles instead of right there in the frames.
Leo, thanks – these aren’t overrides … the template is formatted that way and it reverts back … against the template … to whatever Dorico thought it was supposed to be. The Paragraph Styles workaround has solved it - but it’s a glitch/bug in the program.
If you take some text that’s in a particular Paragraph Style and change its formatting with the text editing toolbar, that is (for these purposes) an override, as it is overriding the Paragraph Style’s settings.
Interesting. So, working with the text, in the text bars themselves, at least in terms of formatting, is considered an override even though the template pages do not show the red triangles? I was able to move project fields and create a project field that all seemed to hold. The only issue was when I attempted to change how it appeared.
I think you only made changes to the default part page template and not to the default score page template. You can assign the default part template to the full score because you want it all the same I gues. By me that works. It is not that I would recommend this way of working.
part firs page template customisation.dorico (467.3 KB)