GoTo: my expectations

Dorico
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Hi!

I use (on Mac) CMD-G to bring up the Go To Bar. I enter a measure (e.g, 29). As per the docs, it brings up the page with m29 on it.

I’d expect, then, measure 29 to be selected … meaning I could SHIFT-N and start entering notes on m29.

This is not my experience.

From this can you tell if I’m doing something wrong or are my expectations incorrect?

Thank you!

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I think your expectations are incorrect. :slight_smile:

What if the layout you’re viewing has more than one player or staff? Which m. 29 should be selected? GoTo just changes the view.

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You don’t need to select anything: pressing Shift-N when nothing is selected starts note input on the highest staff in view.

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(But not necessarily in the measure you GoTo-ed – Dorico chooses the leftmost measure that’s even partially visible for note entry.)

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Thank you for the clarification (@asherber and @Lillie_Harris) :slightly_smiling_face:

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Just fiddled a bit with this, didn’t use Cmd-G before. But the “when nothing is selected” in the quote of Lillie is crucial here. When I’m inputting notes in bar 10 and then Goto bar 60 and press shift-N again, notes are entered into a bar which is not on screen, and the extra notes might get unnoticed.

Note to myself: Be careful with Cmd-G