No repeat in second voice

I'm using version 1.0 on windows 7.

I'm creating a piece that involves a lot of chordwork where a lot of the chords are repeated. However, I have a whole note chord in the first voice. In the second voice I have the same chord repeated in a series of quarter and eighth notes. To avoid the tedious process of manually recreating the chord each time, I had planned on simply using "shift->click" to select the chord, and then press "r" to repeat the chord. It's not a problem in the first voice, but in the second voice it cannot be done. I have duplicated this in a separate score. btw, I am using the key of E maj. (4 sharps) although I doubt this has little to do with this. I also verified that it doesn't specifically have to be a chord-they can be single notes as well. Instructions for recreate are as follows:

1) Create new score.
2) In first voice, create any chord using whole notes.
3) Switch to second voice, and, in the same measure, enter in any chord using quarter notes.
4) Select the second voice chord using (shift->click)
5) Press "R" to repeat the chord

Expected result: chord in second voice is repeated.
Actual result: nothing happens. Chord is not repeated.

Of course, I can get around it manually, but I would very much appreciate it if the process could be sped up.