There was something called rhythmic notation in Finale, where you could take a section with rhythms and with rhythmic notation it would give it a different look and the notes would be bigger and that was done automatically.
Is there a way to do that in Dorico?
Like this.
Yes, see here:How to shut off rhythm slashes - #13 by YourMusic.Pro
I figured it out :
To create rhythmic notation in Dorico (equivalent to Finale’s rhythmic notation), you have two options:
1-Use the keyboard shortcut: Shift + Option + V
2-Find it in the Write menu under “Create Slash Voice”
This will create what Dorico calls a “slash voice” which is equivalent to rhythmic notation in Finale. Note that this is different from Finale’s slash notation (which shows diagonal lines on every quarter note).
To use it:
Go to Write mode
Use the shortcut Shift + Option + V (or use the Write menu)
Then write your rhythms and they will appear as rhythmic notation
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Yay 
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And in my above post, under point 3., there’s even the notation you know and love from Finale, which is called a “Slash region”!
When I Create a slash voice this way Dorico inserts these strange rests into my project. See Screenshot. How do I get rid of them?
Select both measures and do Edit > Remove Rests.
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If I’m doing rhythm section charts that have a mixture of rhythmic notation and normal notes, I just put notes on the middle line of that stave and change the note heads to large slashes. That way, it all stays in one voice and you don’t have to deal with the extraneous rests…
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Thanks asherber. Is this some bug and “remove rests” is the de-bug button or am I doing something wrong that is creating these rests? I am creating a rhythm section part by pasting the horn part into the guitar part, creating a slash voice for some measures to turn the horn hits into rhythmic notation, turning some measures into slashes for comping, and leaving other measures as notated notes for when the ensemble plays tutti.
Nope, it’s how things are designed to work by default when there are multiple voices. Each voice needs to have the correct number of beats in the bar.
You could also handle things the way @Toaster1974 suggests, by leaving the notes in one voice and using right-click Notehead > Slashes > Oversized Slash Noteheads to change the noteheads. No extra rests are created, since there’s only one voice.
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Are you saying that turning some of the notes in the bar to a slash voice creates another voice? Clearly I didn’t understand that. I thought I was just changing the note heads to a different shape when I create a slash voice. I think in the future I will try doing what Toaster1974 suggests if I can make a shortcut key for it.
Yes, that’s right – the new slash voice is not the same as the original voice. You can see that the Write menu has two different choices: Create Voice and Create Slash Voice.
A regular voice in Dorico can have its noteheads set to any of the available notehead sets, including slashed noteheads. A slash voice, on the other hand, can only have slashes (with or without stems). In addition, a slash voice by default puts all of its notes on the middle staff line, whereas if you take a normal voice and change some notes to slash noteheads, their staff location stays the same.
There are pros and cons to both approaches (creating a slash voice or changing to slash noteheads).
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