Hi–I’m working on a choral piece imported via XML from Finale. There are places where Dorico has converted a quarter to two 8ths tied together. See attached screenshot—I would like the tied 8ths to be displayed as a quarter note, without having to erase the note and reenter it. I’ve tried clicking on it with Force Duration active and hitting the keyboard shortcut for 1/4 note. I’ve tried selecting it, hitting the keyboard shortcut for 1/4 note, and THEN activating Force Duration. Nothing happens either way.
Is there a way to invoke Force Duration to transform notes AFTER they’ve already been entered?
Thanks,
Peter
Hi @Peter_Lurye, you need to make the note value shorter than the tie chain, first.
Select the note, press 5, then O (letter) , then 6
The default grouping of 5/8 is 3+2. If you need often the grouping 2+3 (as in your example), you could also personalise the notes grouping directly in the Time signature, selecting it, pressing Enter, and write in the popover [2+3]/8. This will take care of the grouping automatically. [EDIT: opps, just saw that @benwiggy wrote the same , as I was editing my post 
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If this happens consistently, in the same place, then you might want to see if you can do this automatically, either with Notation Options, or with time signature grouping, e.g. [2+3]/8.
Thanks, both! Christian, that’s a great workaround—that will save me a lot of time. But it would be nice if one could invoke a force duration after the fact without having to reenter the note.
Well if you activate Force Duration on one note that has a tie, you are telling Dorico: “Don’t joint the two notes together but leave the tie chain as it is”, so to be able to establish the one note force duration result, you need to apply forced duration on one note (that is not already tie chained)
Haha! Good point…