I’m getting very frustrated attempting to notate a complex piano part. In the screenshot, in measure 204, I need to add an 8ba to the first three notes of the fourth beat. It’s notated properly in measure 206, but in attampting to copy and paste the first beat of 206 into the fourth beat of 204 the …

Hi @dondavis , as soon as you create the 8ba for the cross-staff notes (with the popover or using the panel on the right) and the 8ba isnow “invisible”, press the move to staff below shortcut Option(Alt)+M, and the “invisible” 8ba will appear in the bottom staff. Explanation of what is happening by …

Option+M created this mess: [Screenshot 2025-07-05 at 1.57.36 PM]

@dondavis Please, can you upload those couple of bar as Dorico file, to analyse what its happening? (it looks as the copied notes of bar 206 still were in your clipboard… and you pasted them. Please retry, or upload the project in the state of your first screenshot)

I’m not sure how to do that. Is there a “create new file with selection” feature somewhere?

[image] dondavis: Option+M created this mess: That moves the notes. I think you need cross-stave notes which is just M.

[image] dondavis: I’m not sure how to do that. Is there a “create new file with selection” feature somewhere? See this very important post (#4 in particular). [image] Four simple guidelines to help us help you Dorico We are proud to say that the Dorico forum is fri…

M crosses the staves but then removes the 8ba.

@dondavis Here a video with the workflow I explained above :

[image] Janus: That moves the notes. I think you need cross-stave notes which is just M. Hi @Janus , please see my explanation above. And my video.

[image] Christian_R: Hi @Janus , please see my explanation above. Sorry - didn’t read the whole thread!

Frustrated with piano part and crossed staves

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Christian_R July 5, 2025, 9:02pm 7

See this very important post (#4 in particular).