As I am brand new to Dorico could you please explain to me how we can move a bar to the start of the next staff system? Many thanks for you help
Germain
Select the barline in Engrave mode and press Shift-S to insert a system break.
Jesper
There is also this:
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I always use the keyboard shortcuts for these: , to move a bar to previous system and . for moving it to the next system.
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Jesele
Thank you so much for this explanation I would try this for sure tomorrow and I’ll get back to you after to let you know if I succeeded in performing moving bars to another system.
Your the best
Warm regards
Germain
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Hi Jesele
I managed to make my first piece of music with Dorico. It is not perfect but I’ve learned a few steps and it getting it slowly.
I have tried the procedure that you described below but that didn’t work with the coma or the dot
I joined a few staves that I work on but after repositioning some bars to other staff I get indications as you can see in the attached jpg.
Please could you explain me how I can get rid of those indications and system break.
Thanks for you time and help
Germain
It looks like you replied by email, and I don’t know if attached images get to the forum. You may need to either put the image in the body of your email, or go to the forum and write your reply there.
If you are new to Dorico, there is the Learning tab outlined here which might help you through some of the initial steps 
and the First steps tutorial if you have not already done it.
Aaron
Thanks to let me know. I will make a new post in the forum tomorrow and try to attach the jpg
Germain
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Hi Aaron
After I moved a bar to the next system I noticed that some coloured indication appear on all the staves of my piece of music. Is this normal or can we hide them eventhough I know that they don’t print. Please see attached jpg.
Many thanks for your help
Germain
Those are called signposts. They indicate something in the notation which may not be visible.
You can hide them, although it’s generally recommended to keep them visible unless they’re in your way during layout – for example, with signposts off, you wouldn’t know that you had a manual system break in bar 15.
I’m not sure why the other signposts showed up, but if you upload your project file here, I can take a look.
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Hi asherber
as request there’s the project that you can see all signposts.
Germain
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0n Wings Of Song - Mendelssohn.dorico (1.86 MB)
project file send on the forum
Germain
These signposts appear because in Notation Options > Barlines, you have the default barline type set to a double barline:
But then you have changed all of the barlines in the piece to single barlines. In Dorico, barlines and time signatures are closely related, which is why the signposts look like they’re referring to time signatures.
I don’t think there’s a quick way to fix this, although someone else may have an idea. What I would suggest is to go through the piece, select each barline one at a time, and delete them. You’ll see that the signpost then disappears, and the barline changes to the default double barline.
When this is done, go to Notation Options > Barlines, and change the default barline to a single barline.
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… and you have a page override at page 1.
It’s highly recommended to modify always the page template rather then the page itself especially page 1 because there is a First template
This is your file with the barline fix suggested by @asherber and the asterisk, legato and con pedale expressions realized with text. In the First page template I moved the music frame down and deleted the page override.
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One quick way to fix the barlines:
1. In Setup mode, add a second flow
2. In Write mode, hide signposts (View > Signposts > Hide Signposts)
3. Select something in the first flow, and type Ctrl/Cmd+A to select all, then Ctrl/Cmd+C to copy it
4. Select the rest at the beginning of the second flow, type Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste
5. In Setup mode, delete the first flow
The reason for turning off signposts is that Dorico will copy whatever is visible – turning off signposts means that the barline changes won’t be copied. And Notation Options are per-flow, so the second flow already has single barlines as the default.
Edit: Nope, sorry, this doesn’t work.
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(I tried that approach and it failed - I don’t know why)
Didn’t work here either.
Jesper
Hi asherber
There’s a lot to learn with Dorico your email on signposts is great I learn a good one there since I was wondering why I was getting always a double bar line on every bars.
Now I fixed this problem with you get explainations and your time,
Thanks you so much
Warm Regards
Germain
Asberber
My project was already send to the forum
Germain