Is there any way of placing a quarter rest under the half note followed by the quarter note (example 1), eighth rest under the quarter followed by eighth note (ex 2) or tying the quarter note to a dotted half with a quarter rest under the dotted half followed by the two quarter notes. This is for a marimba part of a score. If I was hand writing the score that is how I would write it and in fact many, many years ago in university composition/orchestration (pre computers) that is how I scored these measures.
I think what you want to use are Rest Chords. Basically, you first enter a rest of a shorter duration, then use Ctrl-Enter to add the longer duration note at the same spot. Attached is your snippet with a second staff added, which replaces your ties with rest chords (I had to leave in the tie to the triplet note, since it's an odd duration)
Ah yes that looks right. Thank you. lol the odd duration. The examples were taken from a project I found in the attic from my university days. It is a percussion arrangement/orchestration of Bela Bartok Mikrokosmos vol 6 147 Marche. The piece is full of odd durations. Got an A on the project. Thought I would transfer it to a digital record not only to exercise, expand and hone my Noteworthy skills (I have mainly used NW for choral pieces) but also to listen to a digital rendering of how it sounds. Again thank you!