Vertical control over default whole rests in condensed measures, similar to what is possible in cued passages.
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happy to ‘help’ 
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To add to #2: frame snapping of centers of frames, for easy centering several objects.
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“Edit Percussion Kit” to be added to the Library Menu.
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One of the very few frustrations I still have as a Finale refugee is Copy-Paste Rhythm.
It was not a native Finale function, but an add-on made it possible, and it was a huge time-saver. Lock Duration (wonderful feature btw) doesn’t totally replace it.
Let me add that I sometimes have to go back to Finale to edit old files, and I feel no nostalgia at all! Whenever I am there, I just can’t wait to return to Dorico 
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(1) Rationalisation of what moving the cursor with the arrow keys does. Especially when there are multiple voices. (Hint: It should be visual, not logical.)
(2) Rationalisation of what happens when a selection exists and you wish to collapse that selection by using the arrows keys. (For instance, if you have a chord selected, pressing the up arrow key should collapse the selection and leave the top not of the chord selected, not the bottom note.)
(3) Rationalization of how to extend an existing selection with the arrows keys. I would take a leaf out of InDesign’s book here: If your start by extending the selection to the right (by pressing the right-arrow key with Shift), the left arrow key will now modify the right edge of the selection, contracting it. But if you start by extending the selection to the left (Shift + left-arrow), the right arrow will now contract the selection on the left side. Very logical and useful. (I prefer it to Word’s system, and I have no idea what Dorico’s current logic is.)
(4) The ability to start playback at the nth repetition (instead of the current behaviour whereby it always starts at the first repetition).
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And (my share in the pot) : better inputting in French Baroque continuo.
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I second the condensing of vocal parts!
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- When selecting more than 1 object (tempo marking, dynamic, etc.) the guide lines disappear, so I can’t align with the others.
- Add “Unlink element” in Engrave mode.
- Cmd-Shift-A function for bar numbers (when appearing on every bar).
- Adjust opacity of watermark!!!
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How about?:
- a one-step conversion between triplets and sextuplets? E.g., combining two groups of 16th triplets into one group of 16th sextuplets.
- a global setting to center notes which fill up the whole bar. E.g., a whole note in 4/4, a dotted half in 3/4. A common practice in plate engraving.
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Automatic cautionary accidentals
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arbitrary stem decorations
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drawing free-form lines but anchored to the rhythmic grid
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Integration of additional options for staff labels, in particular for conventions used in opera
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Rulers and alignment tools for objects
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Native writing for clusters
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Editable multipoint glissando lines with curvature options
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Option to display the value dot of a note when its head is hidden
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Customizable staff
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I’d like to be able to place the fermatas in this passage without workarounds. To a musician, this is obvious: the singer holds the note but the orchestra leaves after their quarter note and pauses on the rest.
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this, … and preventing selected tempo changes from breaking multi-measure rests in parts.
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Here come my request:
to have a third Position property for Staff-attached Text, to be placed Inside-Staff, without needing to offset it vertically…
…As we now have for Placement of horizontal lines:
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I know that this has been requested before but one thing that would save me a lot of time is being able to transfer text frames from one page template to another. Often my score title page and my parts title pages need to have exactly the same information (with the possible addition of the instrument name on the part). Now I have to recreate the same text frames from scratch twice.
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Yes, and I second the ties into repeat endings.
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A visual (dropdown menu?) presentation of the noteheads, and perhaps not having to always right click and go through each submenu to select them, and having to do all these steps EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! (/rant) 
Also, please make attacca (therefor also tied notes into the next flow) possible.
More freedom in drawing lines (glissandi etc.) would be brilliant as well, and for aleatoric writing the free placement of the repetition signs independently from the rest of the staff would be marvelous
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Having created just a single “different” notehead in your score, you can alt/opt-click to copy it wherever you want, as many times as you want. Change it’s duration and pitch and the notehead is retained.
Lots of right-click frustration removed at a stroke.
Zero line staff.
Grid on the screen.
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Break barline between staves with brackets.
More options for stems and beams in tablature like in Finale.
Showing time signatures in tablature (even when there is also standard notation).
More intuitive vertical chord symbol placement. I frequently place chord symbols on more than one staff and positioning them vertically is cumbersome.
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