As an alternative to using laissez vibrer ties at the beginning of a movement, you could enter grace notes tied to the normal notes which follow as shown in the first staff below. In engrave mode, select the grace notes, set their scale to normal and hide their stem, noteheads and ledger lines as shown in the second staff. Finally, adjust the start offset of the ties from the grace notes and move the first beat of the movement to the left in note spacing mode as shown in the third staff:
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