Multi-bar Rest issue

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I Fixed it. This solution worked, ish. I couldn’t use the track selector because I have flute parts I want to keep but selecting the rest of the instrument’s rest and pressing delete worked.

How do I consolidate multi-bar rests?

Dorico is separating this 17-bar rest into three groups, but I don’t want that. I want to start with a single, 17-bar rest. Why does Dorico insist upon separating these? And how do I fix it? (Note: I’ve skimmed other posts on this topic, most of which relate to disabling condensing. But condensing is already disabled in my project, so I remain baffled.) [Screen Shot 2022-04-11 at 4.18.14 pm]

I’m having a similar problem and I don’t have any lyrics. I get that it wants to show the rehearsal marker but it should combine the rest