Edit an existing pickup measure without shifting remainder of piece

[Lillie_Harris]

To make the final bar shorter, you have to either input a barline where you want it to end then delete the now-excess bar beyond, or add a time signature with the required number of beats and hide it (like you did in bar 15). The documentation used to be incorrect about this, but it’s been updated for the iPad manual to give an appropriate note.

The 'delete beats' documentation does not seem to work

This bit of documentation was unfortunately not accurate, it came up a little while ago from another user. Dorico won’t leave a partial final bar this way. I’m sorry for the confusion! I always check everything I write, so that was either briefly true but is no longer or I was simply mistaken. It’s been corrected in-house since the 3.5 manual was published, as you can see here in the iPad manual. Again, apologies for the misdirection - adding an explicit barline and removing the final bar after…