Does anyone know the scope for “save as default”. My testing has shown that more items get saved than what you might think. For example, for Layout Options, categories that I’m not looking at got saved. This would mean that I need to be very careful as a highly customized project would save a ton of defaults for setting I would not necessarily want for a new project.
In Layout Options, the “save as default” button saves all current settings as default. You can have 2 saved default configurations: one for part layouts, and another for score layouts.
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To clarify: all current layout settings – that is, everything in Layout Options.
It’s the same in other options dialogs: All of the settings accessible in that dialog get saved.
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Interesting… then I would likely never “save as default” from a project that’s been customized. I suppose I should create a factory default project, occasionally change the setting that I like there, and “save as default” only from that project - then I know I’m getting only the defaults that I want.
Yeah, I would also like a “Save this one option as default” method 
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You can of course use the Library Manager to great effect, by creating a new document (with your current defaults), and comparing it to another document, bringing on board those changes that you want, and then saving your revised defaults.
You can also compare the current document to the Factory Defaults in the Library Manager.
But yes: if you’ve have created a document that is already far removed from your defaults, and you come across a new setting that you want to have in your defaults, you can’t just press Save As Defaults, because you’ll get all the other changes as well.
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Yeah I learned this the hard way as well when I started using Dorico 
. I do this too, I keep a separate (empty) project file as a kind of master file for my desired default settings. Whenever I want to keep a change I made in a project, I go to that master file, change it and hit Save as default from there. I guess the need for such a file becomes smaller the longer you use Dorico but it helps me keep an overview of general settings that I like. I also use the Library manager a lot as benwiggy says, to compare project settings to either factory or my own defaults, but you can’t save a particular setting as a default from there either - just the other way around (if I’m not mistaken).
A way to save just the setting you are looking at as a default from the actual settings window (or the reverse, to reset only a particular setting to defaults without having to switch to the Library manager) would be very useful indeed, but I’ve gotten used to this master file workaround and I don’t find it too bad.
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I made a similar feature request here:
Okay then, it sounds like you can get just about everything you want with the “master project” technique. You can update whatever settings you want in that project and be confident that the scope of your changes is limited to your basic settings. And then you can do granular updates from the factory settings or other projects using the Library Manager.