I don’t know about other people, but I find this really irritating (and time-wasting), when I hit “t” to tie a single note in one chord to a single note in another, and huge long ties shoot off in all directions.
All I wanted was a tie between the G in bar 55 and the G in bar 56.
So why did you select a note in bar 53?
Can you explain exactly what you did to get those results? It’s clear that the notes in the final chord are getting tied to the previous notes of the same pitches, but I’m not sure how you got there.
The behavior of ties in Dorico is really quite boringly consistent and predictable. If you select a pitch and press T, Dorico will create a tie that extends to the next occurence of that same pitch.
I think you probably had selected a pitch you did not intend.
I think what happened here is only the A was selected when T was pressed causing the tie to go to the next A.
I would have clicked on the G at the end of bar 55, then shift/clicked on the G in bar 56, then clicked “t”. Then WHAM a line shoots back to bar 53.
I have also tried entering the G in 55, clicking “t”, then entering the F and G in 56, at which point the same thing seems to occur.
The solution seems to be to click on the G in 56, then Command/click on the G in 5, which seems to work in a two-note chord, but clicking on a single note in a chord results in unpredictable wanders all over the place … all notes in the chord selected, or one note selected which then becomes all notes selected when you click in the neighbouring chord.
Janus … Guess what … I didn’t go anywhere near bar 53, which is entirely my point. (Thank you).
Can you show voice colours in Dorico? I’m wondering if you’ve possibly done something a bit weird regarding the allocation of voices, at least in that first example.
It might help if you can upload a short version of your file that pinpoints the problem.
That doesn’t seem to be the same fragment as in the OP? 
Why click on multiple notes? Just click on the first G and press T.
If you shift-click, you’re selecting everything in that range; including the F. So the T would alloy to it as well.
I think I’ve got it now. Thanks, everybody.
To tie notes in different voices, select the first, and Cmd click (or CTRL click on PC) on the second, then press T
If you just select ONE note and press T, Dorico will tie to the next note of the same pitch, in that voice, wherever it is.
Thank you.
RT
