Present: your usual sections

For leadersChecked Nov 8, 20262 minutes to read

The parts of your service in order, with the names your church uses, and whether each new service starts with them.

Your usual sections are the parts of your service, in order, with the names your church uses: Before the service, Worship, Message, Response and After the service, plus any of your own. Present groups the slides by them, suggests them for a plan without headers, offers them when you add a section, and can put them into each new service by itself. In Present, open Settings, then Sections.

The list

  1. Each part has its name and a switch. Type a new name, or for Response pick one of the names beside it, like Altar. Press Enter or leave the box, and it saves.
  2. Turn a part off and Present never suggests it or puts it in. Before the service and After the service are always on.
  3. Put the parts in order by dragging a row's grip, or press the up and down arrows beside it. Before the service stays first and After the service last.
  4. Under Your own names, add parts like Communion or Offering. They're offered when you add a section to a service; they have no rule of their own, so they go in by hand.
  5. Put these in each new service by themselves puts your sections onto a new service's plan the first time a leader opens its slides, as headers. The slides say so, with Undo.

A name is the church's: rename Response to Altar here and every new service, the bulletin and the suggested songs call it that. The weekly bulletin puts each Sunday's songs under these sections by their place around the sermon, and adds its own lines (Welcome, Offering, Blessing) under Your usual bulletin. A service that already has its sections keeps them as they are.

On the slides

In a service's slides, the list on the left is grouped by these sections. Drag a part by its grip to another place or another section, or open its ⋯ menu and press Move to. A song you move moves on the band's plan too, and a line at the foot of the list says what moved, with Undo. The button under the list names the section a new part goes in, like Add to Worship, and its menu opens with Put it in so you can choose another. A section's ⋯ menu has Rename, Move up, Move down and Remove, and Your usual sections, which opens this page. See slides for the screens.

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