I don’t quite understand how to put a pause for the entire measure in the 2nd measure of the upper voice. I figured out that with the help of SHIFT+ you can add a new voice and enter notes into it, but what to do if in the measure this voice needs to be in a pause?
Assuming you want this throughout the Flow, it makes much more sense to set things correctly in Library > Notation Options.
Yes Leo, in fact I changed the notation option, but in bar 2 you have to insert the rest you prefer. Also a bar rest if you want.
Nonsense. With the Notation Option I pointed to (in fact, even with the default Notation Option) Dorico will pad any voice for the duration for which that voice exists.
As such you’ll find that as soon as you extend the voice, by adding another note, the gap between will automatically be padded, like so:
The only time in which you’d need to manually add rests to a secondary voice would be if the voice ended before the end of the Flow and you wanted to continue padding it (or started after the start of the Flow and you want to pad the beginning). It’s been like this since Dorico 1.
You are undoubtedly right Leo, but the first thing I made was what you suggest, and with my wonder no rest appeared in the second bar for the first voice. Maybe some other option elsewhere… As soon as I get a machine at hand I’ll post the case.
Here you are Leo… May be some other option about bar rests…? But I choose it…
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Put the caret in the upstem voice at the start of that bar, shift-b, rest, enter. Does that work?
You’ve missed the point of my last post. If you have multiple voices on a staff, the voice that’s secondary exists from its first note to its last note. For any bar that contains notes in a particular voice, Dorico will pad out the unused time with rests. For any bar between the first instance of a voice and the last instance of a voice, Dorico will pad with bar rests.
Adding a note later in the Flow extends the length of the voice. Thus, if you’re planning on adding more notes to this voice in this Flow, it is a waste of time to manually add rests.
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Ah yes, thanks.
So, It’s right that a rest should be inputted if you don’t have any other note in the first voice (note I didn’t see in the OP). You wrote correctly:
When I wrote the example I copied the same notes and I couldn’t believe the rests didn’t appear. Thus I had to add rests!
Well, thank you all, never too late to learn! 
BTW, for the sake of completeness: there is no need to change the option:
If you don’t have any other note in voice 1, you have to insert rests, otherwise the bar rest is inserted anyway:
That’s a good point. I only assumed the rest on the second quaver/eighth of bar 1 was a requirement because you included it in your first reply to this thread. Re-reading I realise that’s not what the OP wanted.
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