hello, in the image circled orange is the word “Div”. I don’t see a way to add this from the available menu items. Is this just text input or is there a method to input this?
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The red circled notes - are these just double notes or a result of the “Div”.
I just created a Playing Technique set to a custom defined Playback Technique of “Do nothing” and made it a default so I can use it in any new document as needed.
The main question is how you want the divisi to show in the part: 1 staff or 2?
If you need separate staves, then use the divisi feature and allow them to re-condense in the score with the condensing feature.
But this passage is simple enough to use just one staff. I would separate the voices for stems up & down all the way through, though – like the last bar in the image, where the rhythmic values differ. Players prefer to see separate stems, otherwise it looks like double-stops.
For an orchestra musician, a double stop marked divisi means they have to play divisi instead of double stops. When ‘div.’ is omitted, they will divide anyway most of the time. If the composer/orchestrator wants a double stop, it’s good to mark the chord or passage ‘non div.’ to avoid questions during rehearsal. You can notate separate voices for clarity, but it’s not absolutely necessary.
good point how is that done?
That’s good to know, I’m a complete noob. 
The default primary voice is “stems up” (which it does automatically in the presence of any other voice, otherwise stems go normally). So create a new voice by typing Shift-V during note entry. Alternatively, you can select an existing note and move it to a new voice with Shift-V. By default this creates “Down-stem Voice 1”.
Once you have more than one voice on a staff, you can switch between voices with V (no Shift). See inputting notes into multiple voices and related pages in the User Guide for more details.
