I assume you mean the text identification of the source and not the source material. You can hide that in the Properties Panel.
So what I’ve discovered is that when I want to insert rhythm cues I need to make slash notation just for those bars where I want those cues. Then I add the cues and it’s perfect. Otherwise Dorico either makes cues or leaves whole rests depending on whether there are notes or rests following the measures I want cued. I end up with a bit of a patchwork quilt of slash colours but at least my cues are correct. Now, who can I delete the name of the cue source? I don’t think it’s necessary that the drummer knows whose cue he’s setting up, but I can’t find how to eliminate that text. It’s not under the Ctl-Shift-E menu dealing with cues.
I’ve looked down there but I don’t see what I’m supposed to de-select.
@arranger2 , here’s a little video I just made, maybe it helps to clear up the cuelessness in this thread… 
Cheers,
Benji
P.S.: I just realized I didn’t explain why I put the melody into a new voice, if you don’t do that, the stems of the notation and the cue get in each other’s way…!
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Sorry to just be catching this, @arranger2. I was at a two-day conference without much chance to c heck in. But it appears that Benji (@YourMusic.Pro) has joined the ranks of Steven Spielberg and @Christian_R to make you an excellent film!
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Just as a follow-up, @arranger2, did the video help you out any? Just a a reference for future videos… 
Best,
Benji
Thanks Benji. It showed me one way to do it, and I’ve discovered another way. Thanks for sending it!
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THANK YOU!!! You’re solution number 2 above - changing into a slashed voice - is exactly the functionality I was trying to find!
Grateful.
I do need to spend some more time becoming comfortable with the “voices” functionality in general.
EXCEPT - I just noticed that the voices that I masked with slash notation do not sound on playback - so if I want a MIDI rendering of the whole score, I will have to go back and change each instance of slash notation back to actual notes - just for the playback??
I guess I could make a second guitar part without the slash notation and use it in a different layout just for playback…
OT, but Equinox in Cm? Isn’t it usually in Dbm?
Or is that one of those like Windows that the Real Book put in the wrong key?
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Very likely so… 
I’ve only ever seen it in Cm!
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OT continued: “Usually”…hmm. As an historical fact, it’s C#min for sure. As a statistical fact since Trane’s recording, I have to wonder…. (Ah, the good, ol’ Real Book shibboleth.) 
(And I confess, I myself was “guilty” of using The Real Easy Book’s Cmin version when I taught younger students since they thought of C#min as “hard.”)
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Well, if you’re playing tenor sax, there should be more than a handful of accidentals in C#m, if I’m not mistaken… 
True, of course, but irrelevant to playing difficulty. It’s funny that young/new musicians are ever taught/acquire the idea that notes preceded by another written symbol are somehow “harder” to play. It’s really just a matter of familiarity breeding the framing of something as “easier” (not unlike how often discussions of “intuitive” software design really just come back to familiarity/unfamiliarity).
What determines difficulty for non-vocal instruments is actually the physical demands on fingers/arms, etc., to play a sequence of notes. I always like to point out that, for example, B major (“five sharps!” 
) is probably the easiest key physically on the piano (longer fingers 2–4 lie beautifully on the shorter black keys, while the shorter fingers 1 and 5 easily approach the Bs and Es, and the thumb crossings are extra fluid because the other fingers are out of the way). Definitely not true on the slide trombone, of course, but not because it has five sharps — it’s because of what’s demanded of the arm/hand.
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For mallet instruments, C major is the hardest key.
Jesper
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I had never realized how indeed true this is. Explains the wealth of tunes by Stevie Wonder or Ray Charles written in C… 
As a guitar player, I’d have to completely agree! 
As long as no notated music is involved… 
Agree with that.
Jesper
But then…you’ll turn it up and we might be able to hear you! 
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