Return to initiating note after using popover -- Help!

Dorico
#1

After I have entered a string of notes into a part, I then arrow-key navigate through that passage, adding articulations, slurs, dynamics, expression, etc. I would prefer to work this step with as few mouse clicks as possible, but as many keyboard shortcuts as possible.

Certain popovers (ornaments, playing techniques, tempo to name a few), after you have created the symbol, the newly created symbol is now the selected object and the arrow keys don’t function in the same way. Usually I can left arrow, but only back to the previous marking of the same type.

Is there a way to go back to the note from which you initiated the popover without a mouse-click? I enter a lot of baroque music, and doing a set of ornament markings is tedious if you can’t do it on the fly (keyboard alone).

#2

Tab switches navigation between different types of object, though there are limitations, for instance gradual dynamics and piano pedal lines.

#3

Thanks @pianoleo. That’s not one I had known about, and it allows me to move out of an ornament back to the note. I’ve found with some of the others that Shift-Arrow will let me move, but it will then select the note AND the marking I just added, but an additional arrow press returns to the note only.

#4

Yes, I too had stumbled upon Shift-Arrow in this situation (needed for just this reason). As you say, sometimes it selects too much, and I end up needing more arrow-ing, but it’s still better than having to reach for the mouse. I’ll start to try Tab in this situation too.

(And by the way, welcome to the forums, @Christopher_Bagan!)

#5

Thanks @Rinaldo! Very happy new-ish Dorico user here. I use all three (Finale, Sibelius, Dorico) regularly depending on who commissions work, but for my own projects and where I have the choice, it’s basically always Dorico now.

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#6

I too use all three, @Christopher_Bagan. I started with Finale 20+ years ago for some score-editing projects (that are still not concluded!), I needed to be fluent in Sibelius for the orchestration classes I taught (as that’s what most of my students used), and now that I’m retired from teaching I’m a devotee of Dorico.