How do you make a coda symbol?
You donât. You invoke the caret at the right musical spot, invoke the repeats popover (shift-R) and write coda. Dorico will insert the symbol, shift the next bar (according to the engraving options), etc.
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Yay! So simple! Should be easier to find in the support materials. Thanks!
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Try âinputting codaâ in the search field 
the important bit is inputting because thatâs when the webhelp will describe the procedure to input it. If you search for âCodaâ, there is too much information availableâŚ
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Tried that (also âinsert codaâ and âcoda symbolâ, but couldnât find it.
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Exactly. Thatâs why I tell you. If you search a procedure, begin with âinputtingâ
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Good to know. Thanks!
To be fair, a bunch of common synonyms for âinputtingâ should really work too, like âinsertingâ or âcreatingâ.
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Iâve tried âinsertingâ, but inputting was really the most effective here 
I agree â inputting is a âprogrammingâ term for data entry. It would not have occurred to me to try that. I have found the Help difficult to navigate as I often get too much irrelevant information and not enough âhereâs how to doâ something.
Thatâs why I did explicitly write that adding âinputtingâ before the stuff you want some information will probably help finding what youâre looking for! I did not make it up, I think the author if the documentation herself (@Lillie_Harris 
) gave us the trick!
Marc, sure, but the point is that this should be augmented with some other keywords that come to mind maybe before thinking about âinputtingâ⌠
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Perhaps you should flag Lillie in a post and list the terms she should add. Lillie has always been very cooperative and has asked folks who could not find things what terms they used to search, but she needs specifics. Perhaps you could politely provide her your suggested alternatives.
If they are for finding âhow toâ articles, they need to be English present participles (as I think you know): finding, making, creating, etc.
As a non-native speaker, Iâd expect to find relevant information with search strings like âhow to input âŚâ, âhow to add âŚâ, etc. Itâs not obvious at all that one should use a present participle (BTW isnât it actually a gerund?
).
Also not exactly intuitiveâŚ
Searches for âadd Xâ, eg âadd key signatureâ, turn up relevant pages at the top of the search results list.
âHow to add a Xâ admittedly less so, but I will be completely honest and say that manually adding keywords with âhow to add Xâ to every relevant page wontât be my top priority for as long as thereâs outstanding features that still need documentationâŚ!
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