This might be a little silly, but I added a pickup measure at the beginning of my score, but there’s a time signature change later on in the piece where it goes to 2/4 and then straight back to 4/4, but the duration in the final 4/4 measure before the switch only has a duration of 3 beats (see attached image). I assume it’s because of the pickup measure, but I need the entire measure to be 4/4, and changing the time signature to 4/4 hasn’t worked to fix the duration. I tried to click around the menus, but I couldn’t find anything, and I was wondering how I could fix that so that that measure is 4/4. Thank you!
Hi @legendKeepers, and welcome to the Forum.
To correct the incomplete bar, select the barline at bar 37, press Shift+B (Bar and Barline popover) and write 1q (one quarter) and press Enter:
You can spot easily those incomplete bars from the Proofreading panel:
Those incomplete bars occur when you change a Time Signature before an existing one, which act as placeholder: Dorico will not add extra beats, unless you use insert mode.
So in such cases you can ask Dorico to add the necessary beats (as explained before).
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Ah, thank you so much! I was wondering how that worked.