Entering cross-staff slurs -- I'm confused

[dhbailey]

Dorico 6.2.2, Windows 11
The only thing I can find in the manual about cross-staff slurs says to do it in note-entry mode. I can’t select more than one note when I’m in note-entry mode, even with the carat extended to both staves of a grand-staff.
In the normal manner of entering slurs, if I click on the first note in the top staff and then click on the last note in the bottom staff then press S I get two slurs – one on the notes in the top staff and a separate one over the notes in the bottom staff.
I already had a slur over the top staff notes, but I can’t click-and-drag the ending handle down onto the closing notes of that phrase on the lower staff.

Thanks in advance for any help anybody can offer.

[charles_piano]

@dhbailey

In the normal manner of entering slurs, if I click on the first note in the top staff and then click on the last note in the bottom staff then press S I get two slurs

It sounds like you maybe select two voices at once. Could you provide a screenshot (or better, a file!)?

@dhbailey

In the normal manner of entering slurs, if I click on the first note in the top staff and then click on the last note in the bottom

This is the way to go, indeed (with Ctrl/Cmd pressed and held before the second click, as @jesele is pointing out out below) :

But the result might depend on the voices, unisons, other slurs, etc…

[Derrek]

@dhbailey

I click on the first note in the top staff and then click on the last note in the bottom staff

EDITED: (Jesper is right)
I believe that should be CTRL/CMD + Click on the second note.

[jesele]

Cmd-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Windows)

Jesper

[dhbailey]

Thank you – I’ve been entering all my slurs by clicking the first note, then shift-clicking the last note I want in that slur and I thought that would work for cross-staff as well.
I guess I’ll be training myself to do ctrl-click instead of shift-click for entering slurs on already-entered notes to build that habit so it will work for any situation.