What the bleep did i do? lol

Dorico
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In my project of 14 flows, flow 5 has a different layout (kinda). I took ss of Setup Mode and you can see that Lago di Garda (flow 5) is not highlighted like the rest. This is a project of piano solos, so there’s no other instruments besides the piano. FYI all of these pieces were created in Finale and imported to Dorico XML. So after some investigating, I see that when in Setup Mode, on the left hand Players column, (i took a screenshot) there are two categories, one is blank, displaying a “one person” icon, which i think means 1 player, and below that is Grand Staff. In every single flow, the top one is selected. But on flow 5 - Lago di Garda - grand staff is selected. When I select the one above it, an extra “blank” grand staff, is added onto the score of flow 5.

I guess my question(s) are, will this affect this project in a negative way, and most importantly, “how” did I do this???

Thank you

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Very possible that this isn’t something you did per se, but just an artifact of the XML import process that doesn’t always understand what instruments are. What do you mean by ‘flow 5 has a different layout’? Arguably, as long as everything looks the way you want/expect, this won’t affect the project in any tangible way. However, I’d still advise to do this:

and copy the music to the blank staves. Then you can delete the extra Grand staff player and be assured that you won’t run into confusion in the future when editing this project.

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Great idea. I’ll do that. And I’m not sure what I meant by ‘flow 5 has a different layout’ tbh. I’m still under the impression that ‘Layouts’ encompass more than I think it does lol