Pickup Bar Cheat Sheet

[Christian_R]

You don’t need such cheat sheet (EDIT: and @janus explains why, here below ).

And here a method without needing to “count”:
just write your pick-up in the first complete bar and then with Insert Mode active (Global Adjustment of Current Bar mode), delete the rests. Dorico will calculate the pick-up bar for you :

Also you can reference to this post, with some further explanations:

Problem inserting pick-up bar

Hi @Manny_Mendelson I made three little videos to explain different cases for editing the pick-ups. I hope can be of some help. Case A: you have written the full bar with rests -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select the rests -press delete [pickup a] Case B: you forgot to write the pick-up and want to add it : -activate insert mode (global adjustment of current bar) -select first note -press enter (to activate the caret) -choose the note value (with the mouse …