Re-balancing staff spacing after moving a rehearsal number

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I am working on a tuba part in my orchestra piece, and there is a staff that places a rehearsal number needlessly too high, creating a large space between two staves. So I manually moved the rehearsal number down and to the side, so that I can move the two staves closer together. (Please see the attached image of the page with the moved position of rehearsal number 24.)

I would like to move the affected staff up closer to the staff above, with the result of all the staves below spreading out proportionally to compensate at the same time. I do not want to have to move every staff on the page to re-create a balanced page in terms of consistent staff spacing. When I try to do this using either the upper or lower staff handle while holding down the option key, the other staves do not move proportionally.

Also, I would expect “Reset Layout” under Notation Menu Staff Spacing to compensate for the extra space I created, but nothing happens after clicking that. (I believe Dorico assumes the rehearsal number I moved is still in it’s default position when calculation staff spacing on the page. If that is true, it would be nice if “Reset Layout” would take into account the NEW position of manually-moved musical elements when avoiding collisions.

What is the most efficient way the get the balanced re-spacing that I want for that page?

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Yes, I come across these situations with parts quite often, especially with rehearsal marks.

There is no automatic way to even out the spacing once you’ve moved the item in question, (if avoid collisions is checked) you simply have to do it manually. However, there are a couple of things you could try: Firstly, put all the cue names below the cue via the properties panel…you could also put the violin cue down one octave via the properties panel…this will give the rehearsal mark enough space. Secondly, I would increase your intersystem gap a little in layout options…it looks a bit tight.

And before you do those things, select the rehearsal mark and reset its position using ‘reset position’.

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I tend to have the ‘Automatically resolve collisions’ checkbox off in part layouts, so the staves start out equally spaced no matter the content. Then if, after moving things out the way you still need extra space, concertina drag does work for moving staves apart.

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Thank you both for your replies. They are all excellent suggestions.