is there a way to do this? or otherwise reassign shift-drag so I can use it like I use it in every other program I’ve used in my 50+ years… this is not a new trick this old dog should have to learn…
It’s early here and I’m having trouble imagining the context you’re referring to. Can you describe the situation for my temporarily caffeine-free brain?
I think your answer will be “No”, in any case. But you never know!
It’s rather late here, but I am afraid I won’t have a much better answer than Daniel’s…
I haven’t been using computer as long as you have — I started in 1986, so not even 40 years. And I have not been using shift-drag (and scarcely cmd-drag). Do I understand you well when you write drag, you mean marquee selection, right?
I’d say it’s rare I need to marquee select in Dorico since 1.2 
Could you elaborate on what you are trying to do? I am certain we can help you then 
I’m working with multiple voices. I need to select two sets of note that are in voice two, where there are intervening notes in voice 1 hence I don’t want to select those. In other programs, I can shift-drag to add additional items to my selection. Yes, a marquee does appear when I shift-drag to select the first set, but when I shift-drag again, a hand appears and the whole score moves as I shift-drag. The confusion is why does shift-drag do something different when I’ve just used it to select, suddenly I’m moving things…
Actually marquee select only needs dragging, no extra key. In your case, the faster workflow is to select one note-shift click the other note (every note in between gets selected), or marquee select, filter upstem voice 1, done. You can set shortcuts for filtering or use the jump bar.
In Preferences, you can choose not to move stuff with the mouse, that’s the original Dorico behavior (the other has been added in Dorico 5 but I don’t think it’s a good idea ), that way you don’t fear for mistakes because of erratic mouse behavior or whatever…
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Another little trick:
You can select the first note of a voice, Cmd+select another note in that voice, and then press Shift+Cmd+A to select all the notes of that voice in between.
That function is called Select more.
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ok, thanks Daniel and Marc 
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I believe this might be a windows vs. Mac thing.
Which is to say, you’re used to the windows way, but the devs primarily use Macs and so that’s why it behaves that way (as is standard on macs).
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