Hi. Why do I get an odd 4 bars at the end which are not the same as all the previous bars? I’ve set prefs to 4 bars per line and 32 bars length (as this is my preferred working layout). When I try to delete the odd bars it will delete the last 3 bars then proceed to delete the previous bars still leaving 1 odd bar at the end? Not sure how to upload screen shot,
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I think I’ve sussed it. It was a visual thing as per Finale when I opened my default file it was laid out as 32 bars with 4 bars per staff so if I needed to start writing say 16 bars in I would start there. In Dorico I think I need just to input notes from bar 1 and insert bars at a later stage.
Exactly, Dorico will create more bars when you get to the end of the flow and continue inputting notes.
For setting 4 bars per system, it looks like you’ve worked that out, but here’s a link to casting off anyway or for anyone else finding this thread:
And for the short final system, see here:
Thank you that helped a great deal. I’d imported a lead sheet template from a .xml file and I kept getting these odd bars at the end so I presumed the file maybe corrupted and set about creating a new template from scratch which resulted in the same odd bars. Oh the joys of wisdom.
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It’s easy when you know 
Don’t worry I’ve got lots of questions to be answered but I’ll try and work them out myself until I get frustrated.
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Don’t feel like you have to wait too long! As you can see, we’re a friendly and responsive bunch here, even at the moment when there’s a lot of questions
(and I love the ones where the answer is “Dorico has an option for this” and everyone goes away happy!)
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