I’m trying to select a few pages to then repeat them with invoking R. But only the notes are getting selected, not the repeat barlines. This is how it appears if I try to extend the selection beyond one page; only the notes and lines are selected, not the repeat bars. Any thoughts? Thanks.
How do you perform your selection? IIRC, the only way to select everything (not hidden) is using the system track. Have you tried that?
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Thanks. I use the selection tool and have also tried (with the selection tool not selected) the marquee tool, dragging across several pages. Only the notes get selected. Also tried “Extend selection” in various permutations with the Jump Bar.
The system track can only select single measures at a time as far as I can tell, and not the barlines. The lack of selection possibilities (trackpad-based) is getting in my way, unfortunately. Thanks. The only way I can see is to copy the notes with the selection tool, but then recreate the repeats, and that’s a bit time-consuming.
What I’m trying now is zooming waayy out, selecting whole pages, and then repeating the measures, deleting the ones on the first selected page I don’t want. Problem is, the first selected measure includes a tie from the prior measure, which is part of a tuplet, so I have to now untie that, zoom way out, select several pages, hit R, delete a few measures, and then retie those initial notes I didn’t want selected. I really wish Dorico had a means to select measures with repeat barlines if present, by selecting and dragging. Repeat bars get unselected, which is odd.
You can actually drag select and shift select in the system track!
Not working on my end. What I did do was zoom out, select several pages (that method copies the barlines), hit R, then inserted the one missing measure upstream. Preserved the repeats nicely. But with the system track, as soon as I hit Select, it switches to the hand tool…
I tried a different approach with the system track by hitting shift after hitting the track downstream, but it does not select barlines of any kind.
Both system track selection and marquee selection work perfectly here.
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but do they copy repeat barlines? I found a (not so elegant) workaround as mentioned, but is there some preference I need to change in order for barlines to be selected by the track selection? Thanks.
YES. Dorico copies everything that is selected (ie orange).
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I’m not trying to be obtuse, but I already know that. The issue is that Dorico is not selecting repeat barlines unless I drag the selection (and for multiple pages, that’s a challenge since zoom out is not infinite).
See the video -note that only the last method gets everything (ie, the barlines). But as soon as I click the last measure on the right, the barlines get deselected.
Click on the first bar in the system track, shift click on the last bar you want to select. Then click on the little square in the last bar of the system track (it only appears when you hover over it, not necessarily the easiest to find). That will select everything in those bars.
Actually @dspreadbury, while I’m here, could I make it a feature request to have that little square appear in the first bar of the system track selection as well as the last, if you make a large selection by clicking the last bar then shift-click the first bar in the system track, you then have to scroll back to the last bar in order to select everything…
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Yes I figured that out. But it doesn’t copy repeat bars. It doesn’t select barlines, actually
I tried this. It didn’t highlight the repeat barlines (or any barlines) in a selection made using the System Track. However, when I copied and pasted the selection to another location, the repeat barlines were included in the paste.
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That’s great to know. Thank you! I’ll try this next time it comes up.
That’s actually why I mentioned system track selection…
If you press alt, you can also select bits of a bar (according to rhythmic grid). It’s a tool worth exploring, since it’s often the best selection tool. 
Thanks, but isn’t that the shift key (to select more/extend the selection by the grid duration) plus an arrow? Option (on a mac, like alt on a PC) moves notes.
Look how the alt/option key makes every division of the bar according to the rhythmic grid visible. That’s interesting: you can select everything in the score, even in just a 16th note span.