Setting up your song list in a clean and organized fashion makes it easy to move around without sending the wrong things to the screen. During the service there is not a lot of time to react if things do not go as you expected.
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The following steps proceed the background setup. For a list of instructions on how to setup the pre-made PowerPoint backgrounds supplied on this site click here. For a list of instructions on how to setup your own backgrounds click here.
Below is a list of instructions on how to insert a song into your song list. The slides will be inserted under the slide you have highlighted. Highlight the top slide to have the song inserted just under the welcome screen. We do not use a blank slide after the title as this allows us to move right from the welcome screen into the worship. Blank slides are a series of dashes “——-” that we use to create spaces between the songs.
STEP 1. Under the drop down menus click on Insert, and then choose the “Slides from files….” option.
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STEP 2. In the popup window choose the Browse button.
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STEP 3. Under the look in drop down list locate the directory where your songs are located, then choose a song you wish to insert, and click open.
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STEP 4. Click on the insert all button, and then click on the close window button.
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Once the slides have been inserted they can easily be moved around in the slide layout view. To move a single slide drag it to a new location. To move a group of slides or an entire song click on the first slide then hold down the shift key and click on the bottom slide.
Always keep a blank slide at the bottom of the list. If you accidentally enter a number using the keyboard that is higher than the slide numbers in your presentation you will be moved to the last slide in the list. If this is blank slide, you wont be sending the wrong song to the screen. The blank slide at the end also allows you to arrow down when the last song is over.
You will need to copy the HalvettBlackCond font into your windows font directory. All the downloadable songs have been formatted using this font. The font is the same type as Arial only bolder and more condensed. It works excellent as a projected font as it is more readable. The file needs to be copied to your WINDOWS\FONTS directory.
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I have been using this program for about 5 years. It works really well.
I downloaded your song template and am attempting to use it to see if it will work for me. I understand most of it but I do not understand what the slide that says Bridge is for or what it is supposed to do and if I need to include it as part of my song lists. Can you help me?
this is fine but I’ll recommend Media Shout- It’s been awesome.
The program is awsome I love it!!!!
But I do have a question…Pur church has over 100 songs.Is there any such thing as to put the songs in a folder type on Power point.
Ok!!!Lets say I open a song it goes into powerpoint when that songs is done i have to close the song go to documents look for lets say folder B that’s where the song is and look up the next song….so what i want is to be able to see the folder on the song that i has already open so I dont have to close that song and then look up for the next song…becuase what happens is that our worshipleader never has a order of what songs he is going to sign….Sorry if is a little confusing but if you could help me that will be great.
Something you may want to consider …
I save my songs in individual ppt files, but I also have a single lage ppt with all the songs in alphabetical order. When preparing my schedule, I simply move the scheduled songs to the top of the presentation. If things are “normal”, I can just go through the songs sequentially. If we skip a song, I just move to that song. The real power comes in, when I have an unscheduled song, I just move to it.