I have a piece of music created in Dorico. Somewhere along the way the noteheads stopped aligning with the stems. All noteheads are shifted a tiny bit to the right.
I use the larger notehead size, but resetting to default notehead size does not fix this issue.
I have been searching through the pro manual and forums, but cannot find any solution.
Screen shot coming.
Welcome to the forum @gattodacqua,
As you will no doubt find the more you visit us, it’s best to upload a short project with any issues present.
I can see the result of your problem but I have no idea about the settings you have. There may be a simple one to solve this.
new folk arg.dorico (858.8 KB)
Thanks, and i have just posted a file.
I am absolutely certain it’s a simple thing. 
I am still new to Dorico, haven’t learned all the tricks yet.
It’s very much a brute force method, but try this:
Open Library > Library Manager…
Set Compare to: to Factory settings
Set Show: to Differences
In the LH column, click on the red ≠ sign at the right of Options
It will change to a green arrow
Click Apply
Do the same steps for Collections
Close the Library Manager window
In Library > Music Fonts… , select any music font other than Bravura and click OK (Edit: this might not be necessary).
Then go back into the same place, select Bravura and click OK.
When I carried out all these steps, the stems and noteheads aligned correctly. The only oddity that I observed was that the dotted note in bar 14 (tied from the previous note) lost its stem. I was able to fix this by deleting the two tied notes and re-inputting them. On going back a few steps, I selected the dotted note and opened Properties. Its stem length had been altered. Disabling Stem adj. restored the stem.
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Thank you very much. That did indeed fix the stem alignment.
It also basically reset many preferences, fonts, spacing, etc., so beware, anyone with a similar issue.
But you did warn, ‘brute force’.
I will go from here and keep a close eye on this and other alignments, see if i can identify what threw them off.
PS-- yes, m14, dotted note, the stem was gone. But i clicked on it, a little adjustment square appeared, i just dragged it upwards and there it was again.