Propagate Part Formatting dialog

The Propagate Part Formatting dialog allows you to copy the page formatting and layout options from a source layout to destination layouts.

You can open the Propagate Part Formatting dialog in Setup mode in any of the following ways:

  • Right-click a layout in the Layouts panel and choose Propagate Part Formatting from the context menu. This automatically selects that layout as the source layout in the Copy formatting from list.

  • Choose Setup > Propagate Part Formatting.

Figure: Propagate Part Formatting dialog

The Propagate Part Formatting dialog contains the following sections and options:

  1. Copy formatting from list

    Contains a list of all the layouts in the project. You can only select a single layout as the source layout.

  2. Propagate formatting to list

    Contains a list of all the layouts in the project. You can select multiple layouts as destination layouts.

  3. Selection options

    Allow you to select/deselect all the layouts in the Propagate formatting to list.

  4. Include layout options

    Allows you to copy layout options relating to part formatting from the source layout to the destination layouts. These options include page size, page margins, the default master page set, space size, vertical spacing, note spacing, casting off, multi-bar rest settings, and staff labels.

  5. Include system formatting

    Allows you to copy the distribution of bars in systems, systems on pages, and note spacing changes from the source layout to the destination layouts. Dorico Pro achieves this by copying system breaks, frame breaks, and note spacing changes, inputting additional system and frame breaks as required, and deleting any existing system breaks, frame breaks, and note spacing changes in the destination layouts.