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Open a downloaded chart straight into PraisePad

For leadersChecked Nov 9, 20261 minute to read

Right-click a downloaded chart and choose Open with, PraisePad, or share it to PraisePad on Android. It waits on Import.

Once PraisePad is installed on your computer or Android phone, a chart you downloaded can go straight into it, with no dragging. PraisePad opens in the church you used last, at Import, with the file waiting, just as if you had dropped it there. You check it on the review, and nothing is saved until you import.

It takes the files Import takes: ChordPro, OnSong and text charts, PDFs and Word files (.docx), like a SongSelect or PraiseCharts download.

On a computer: Open with

  1. Install PraisePad from Chrome or Edge first (see get PraisePad on your computer).
  2. Right-click the downloaded file, choose Open with, then PraisePad. The first time, your browser asks whether PraisePad may open this kind of file: allow it.

PraisePad joins the Open with list for these kinds of file; it never becomes the program a file opens with by double-click. On a computer it's Open with only: Chrome and Edge don't offer installed web apps in their Share menus there.

On an Android phone or tablet: Share

  1. Install PraisePad from Chrome.
  2. In your downloads or Files, share the file and choose PraisePad.

Sharing a link to PraisePad still opens it in Find a song.

iPhone and iPad

Safari doesn't let installed web apps take files from Open with or Share, so download the file and drop it on Upload instead (see import PDFs).

If PraisePad says it couldn't take the file, open PraisePad, then drop the file on Import.

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