Workflow ideas: Toggling parameters and options

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Hello,
New Dorico user here!

  • Coming from using Sibelius and Finale, it seems odd that in Dorico, in order to switch between the hand tool and the marquee tool you have to toggle using a key combination (option-h). It would be nice to be able to press a key combination to engage the other option at the moment, like in Finale where you have the option-cmd thumb combination that allows you to drag instead of select regardless of the tool you are in, or in Sibelius where you access selection mode by pressing cmd.

  • And in other cases, there are certain options which might be better as toggles. For instance, link and unlink elements, accessing both options with one shortcut rather than two.

  • It would be nice to switch to Engraving mode when double-clicking on slurs, as you can already move them around by single-clicking, and in order to go to note input mode you can already double click into notes.

Loving the software thus far!

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Welcome to the forum, Arnau.

Try holding Shift.

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One of Dorico’s great features is that you can assign keyboard shortcuts to any of the commands, particularly those you use frequently.

I would recommend assigning commands to Copy to Staff Above/Below, as they are very useful, e.g. copying dynamics, slurs down a whole bunch of staves.

On a Mac, I use Shift Alt M and N, which matches other M/N staff commands; though I believe one of these is used for Markers by default.

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I use the same shortcuts, and I use them a lot.

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