Although this is has been addressed on this forum before, I just learned how to use this function and it is incredibly useful. You veterans know this, but despite my 8 hours/day on Dorico for the last three years, for some reason I never learned this.
If you have a group of 1/8s and change them all to 1/16s (for example), you will have rests in between them. If you click INSERT first, you don’t have this problem:
- Highlight the notes.
- Turn on Insert (see image).
- Hit J and select Commands.
- Type halve, and select Halve note values.
- The notes will change and there will not be rests in between.
The reverse is true, as well: you can double note values.
It looks like a lot when written down, but it only takes seconds.
Insert mode:
