Present: change slides while the show runs

While the slides are live, you can fix a slide, look at other pages, and even reload, and the screens keep going.

Fix a slide on the spot

1. Press Edit under the slide on the screen (or under Next), or press E. On an iPad, turn on Edit at the top, then tap any slide.
2. The slide opens beside the show, with a picture of how it will look. Type the change.
3. Press Update the screen. The new words go up at once, and Undo puts the old ones back.

If someone else just changed the same slide, choose Use theirs or Keep yours. Without the internet, the screen still changes, and the slide saves when the connection is back.

The arrow keys and a clicker keep running the show. Page Down and Page Up move the slides even while you type, and Esc only leaves the box.

A slide can carry a short Cue for the pastor, like "Invite everyone to stand". It shows on the pastor's screen when the slide goes up, and never on the room's screens.

Look at other pages

Press Slides at the top left: the slides open in a tab of their own, and the show keeps running in this one. While the show is live, every PraisePad page in that browser has a dark bar across the top: what's on the screen, Previous, Next, Screen off, and Back to the show.

Jump to a song or a verse

Click a song or a reading in the list on the left to show its first slide; for five seconds, a button offers to go back. While a verse is up, + Next verse adds the next one after it. Find can look a verse up by a few of its words.

When the songs or the computer change

If a song's words change during the service, the screen stays on the same part. If the slide on the screen itself changed, PraisePad offers Show the new one.

After a reload, press Pick up to carry on, or Start fresh. With a second computer, the one that started last runs the screens, and the other offers Take over.