Hey all,
Is this the normal behavior for repeating chord symbols? Instead of repeating the 4 bars, it chooses to replace the last chord symbol.
When I hit repeat:
Chord symbols don’t have a duration. The final chord selected marks the end of the selection and isn’t repeated.
When you select G C F G, you’re selecting three bars.
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this is a good work around thanks! But surely it shouldn’t work like that. feels very un dorico-y
It’s surely it not intuitive… 
Unfortunately, Dorico has no way of knowing for how long the last chord symbol is supposed to last… 
When I enter your first four measures, select those measures with the system track, and then press R, the four-measure chord pattern (and only the four-measure chord pattern) repeats as I would expect it to.
I see it is not the same with only chord symbols filtered.
Of course one can always add an extra G chord at the end before duplicating the (5) measures and then remove the extra chord symbol at the end.
Dorico is consistent: try this with four bars of dynamics, tempo markings, rehearsal marks, or text.
In the following example, a human can anticipate that the first four bars might be repeated from bar 5. Dorico can’t know where the repeat should begin (and even if it were programmed to place the repeat after the next barline or at the next unit of the rhythmic grid it wouldn’t help).
The sense of unease is because only one chord symbol can be shown and information is apparently being lost when we press R. When text is repeated, it’s clear what’s happening and there’s no such discomfort:
I always use the old Ctrl C, Ctrl V solution for this but it would be handy if you could press R.
I usually just select the chords then Alt-click them around. Gif below.
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But then how would you let Dorico know where the first chord of the sequence would start. It’s the same if you select 3 notes in a 4/4 bar, except, as mentioned above, the note has a duration, so Dorico knows to ‘R’ the selection after the existing ones. Personally, I select the chord symbols I want to copy and alt-click them into place…
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Yes alt click is also possible and a little bit faster. But somehow alt click does not always work on my system. I don’t know why. I select the place where I want the symbols to be and paste. They are in the memory then so even when you do other things before you can paste them later.
Whatever objects you are trying to Alt-click (chord symbols, notes, tempos etc.), you need to click the middle of the stave, not above it.
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Aha ok I will try tomorrow. It is bedtime now😀 but problaby learned something at the end off the day. Thanks!