Shifting contents of bar to the left?

Dorico
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I have a bar that has an eighth note rest in it which is too crowded by the chords on either side. I went to the adjust note spacing and nudged the barline over but is there a way to shift a portion of the notes in the bar over all at once instead of each chord at a time? There’s enough space in the stave that it should work.

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You can select the chords and apply spacing changes to them just like notes. Or you could adjust several note spacings at a time by shift-clicking them or marquee to select multiple notes. Anthony Hughes has a great video on this:

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Dear richardC,
I find that if I just need to move first bars of the system to the left (because the last bar is too stretched), doing a marquee selection of all the handles of the first bars and moving them to the left gives very good results in a very short time.

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And just to be clear, the way to move notes etc to the left or right, Richard, is with Option/Alt + Left or Right arrow keys (after selecting).

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Thanks for the suggestions. Finally achieved the desired results, but I wish there was an easier way to reset bar spacing.

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You can reset edits you’ve made to note spacing or indeed staff spacing via the Engrave menu, either for the current frame or for the whole layout.

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Thanks for that info Daniel. I do rather miss the Sibelius reset note spacing option where you can just highlight a section and that’s that.

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You can do that in Dorico too: with the note spacing tool active, marquee select the region you want to reset, and hit Delete.

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Haven’t heard of that one Daniel but I will try it.

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Selecting the notes and in the Edit menu Reset position should have that same effect.

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Marc, that was the first thing I tried but it didn’t quite work for me.

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Thanks RichardC. I just saw that on a video by Anthony Hughes (about note spacing) so I supposed it might work… maybe it did work when that was implemented and something changed ?