# When stuff shoots off screen

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**Category:** Dorico\
**Created:** [August 28, 2025, 5:00am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/when-stuff-shoots-off-screen/1006876 "2025-08-28T05:00:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![asherber](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/user_avatar/forums.steinberg.net/asherber/32/277014_2.png) [@asherber](https://forums.steinberg.net/u/asherber)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2025, 5:18am UTC](https://forums.steinberg.net/t/when-stuff-shoots-off-screen/1006876/18 "2025-08-28T05:18:57Z")

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If you place multiple items at a given rhythmic position, Dorico’s collision avoidance mechanism will stack them so that they don’t overlap. If you place enough of them, or if they’re tall enough, they will eventually get pushed off the page.

I’ve replicated that here, for example – a long block of text has displaced both a rehearsal mark, indicated by the dotted attachment line, and a tempo mark that you can’t see at all. (You also can’t read all the text, because there’s not enough room on the page.)

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/original/4X/d/b/3/db310c8dabe80fe2f575d139db0dbddf81d8aa63.png)

While it’s certainly not ideal, it’s a logical consequence of Dorico trying to avoid collisions. One way of addressing this is to select the text block in Engrave mode and turn off the “Avoid collisions” property. This brings the tempo mark and rehearsal mark back into view.

 ![image](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/steinberg/original/4X/4/a/7/4a7bc1cce65998129ae0f216fcced0869c017d99.png)

I believe this is the issue you were facing – although I can’t tell for sure, because you have declined repeated requests to share your project file so that we could take a look. This is what one might call “speed to solve”.

I think you were also facing an issue in selecting and then moving the rehearsal mark that had gotten pushed up. You found the solution to that, which a couple of us also suggested. I was just clarifying that the inability to reposition the mark in Write mode after you had selected it was by design.

If I’ve misunderstood the issue, then please clearly state what it is.

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