MuseScore 4 - Trouble With Duplicate Eighth Note Flags

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Several people have suggested I view everything as chords instead of individual vocal lines. Even though they are indeed four separate vocal lines (written in a standard hymnbook format), I'm ok with inputting them as chords, as it seems the software has trouble adapting the formatting otherwise.

In the screenshot below, the first measure went well. No separate note values within each staff (each part shares the same note values), so no problem. However, things got dicier in the second measure. In the bass clef, last part of the measure, the two vocal parts have different note values, so assigning voice parts are a necessity.

Here's the first way I did it the second measure. I wrote the dotted quarter - eighth notes first as the default same voice, no problem. I then input the F half note. Here's how it looks:

But, at that point, there doesn't seem to be any way to simply choose Voice 2 for the notes that haven't been entered yet. Instead, you have to select the previous notes for that voice part in the measure, which then breaks the stem sharing (a half rest is added automatically and not dealt with yet):

When the bass note (Voice 1) stems are flipped back to enforce stem sharing, the duplicate eighth note flag is added:

Now, I input the rest of the tenor notes in the last part of the measure now that Voice 2 is established in the first part of the measure. It works, but I still have the duplicate eighth note flags. I change the C eighth note to be Voice 1 instead of 2, so the duplicate flag will go away. It does, but now there is an automatically included eighth rest that cannot be selected, thus unable to be deleted or hidden (unless there's a hidden mechanism I'm unaware of):

Here's the second way I wrote the second measure. To me it's less intuitive, but it accomplished the end goal in less steps and didn't result in the eighth rest that couldn't be hidden or deleted (to my knowledge).

After the treble clef was completely inputted, I put in the dotted quarter - eighth notes on the bass clef. I then put in an F quarter note and a C quarter note, then the A to finish the measure. To the software, the measure is completed and all the bass clef notes are Voice 1. Everything is tidy.

But, I need the F note on the bass clef to be a half note. I select the third C and final A and make them Voice 2, then select the
F and make it a half note. I have to do some stem flipping to match the source material but it works. No rogue rests:

As I said, it's a bit counterintuitive to me to essentially have to write it incorrectly so things can be changed to correct afterward. But, it's a minor issue (no pun intended) and it does work.

I don't know if the title of the initial post can be edited. I will try to do so, as the eighth note beaming problem has been eradicated by not using multiple voices when not expressly necessary.

Thanks to all for the discussion thus far.