Second voice inadvertently continues

This was bound to happen sometime …

I’ve got a part where in one measure I introduced a second voice. I’ve since added another 40-50 measures and it all went in correctly. This morning I glanced back over it, and everything after where I added the second voice for two bars now appears as if there are still two voices, which means it’s all downstem, and ties all curve downward and there are rests for the second voice above. It wasn’t like that before this morning, meaning I somehow did something to make it think there are two voices.

Rather than try to explain it too much the best thing to do is just attach an example as seen in Engrave Mode.

My question is not what fat-fingered move I did to cause that, which had to be an inadvertent accident, but what do I do to fix it?

Select those bars; rightclick - voice- change voice to upstem voice 1

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@Carlovanderput beat me to the punch. I discovered this solution on my own and came charging back here to report it before anyone else wasted any time on this. Yes, this works.

It doesn’t explain what I may have done to cause this because the affected part is 30-40 measures long, I’m working on the opposite end of it, not where it suddenly went off track, and it has been looking fine all along. And then suddenly it didn’t.

Thanks for the help. I’m glad this one was resolved quickly.

It happens to me all the time. When starting note input you, and often I, neglect to look at the caret which shows which voice the subsequent notes will be entered. I’ve gotten into the habit of turning on voice colors when inputting into a multi-voice staff. That way, it is clear that when I’m entering into the wrong voice, I notice before I get too far along.

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If you restart note input on a stave, Dorico will continue to use the last voice that you entered on it rather than starting again from voice 1.

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