Problem with popover for right hand guitar fingering

I’m working on 3 pieces in one file. The popover won’t change to R.H. fingers in two of them. In the first piece I get a R or H in the popover when I use down/up arrow, so I can enter fingerings for either hand. But in the others I just get a small crotchet with a number, I can enter L.H. but it won’t change to R.H. fingers?
I’m using Dorico 5 Pro on Windows 10.

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Welcome to the forum @trishabudd – that sounds like the instrument isn’t understood by Dorico to be a fretted instrument.

Perhaps try changing the instrument in Setup mode to make sure it’s definitely a fretted instrument? (this retains all its existing music, but updates it as needed for the new instrument type)

Thank you so much. It was an XML file that I had imported. It did say classical guitar on the player, but obviously wasn’t being recognised. When I changed it as you suggested, it works perfectly!

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Changing instruments… to the apparent same instrument is rather mandatory if you want to make sure everything is going to turn out all right when dealing with XML imports :wink:

Thanks, I’ll make sure that I always do that with xml imports in the future!

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