Pickup Bar with shortened ending

Dorico
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After looking everywhere for a solution with no success I have to ask here:

I can’t get Dorico to automatically shorten the last bar of a piece when I enter a pickup bar. To manually shorten the last bar by changing the time signature and hide the time signature symbol doesn’t feel right.

Thanks for any help!

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Select the final beat rest, open the Bars popover with Shift+B, type final, and hit Enter. If you wind up with an empty bar at the end after this, do Shift+B again, type trim, and hit Enter.

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That’s what I did already, but nothing changes. The “final” bar stays in 4/4.

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Animation

I’m not sure why this wouldn’t work for you. Can you upload your project?

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fin works also :slight_smile: (and it means end in French, so easy to remember for me!)

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My fault! I tried without entering notes, so I couldn’t select the final rest.

Now it works! Thanks for your help!

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Wouldn’t work using Shift-B and then -1q work also? Would be more intuitive for me, since all I want is for that last quarter to be gone…:thinking:?