Groups and Arrangements

Groups and Arrangements make it easy for you to create multiple versions of a single song without having to save several files in your library. This feature allows you to define slides as part of a stanza (Group) and then arrange them in whatever order you need.

To get started, right-click on a slide and select a Group Name. If you have 8 slides and start on the first slide, all 8 slides will be grouped into the selected group. If you start on slide five, the first four slides will remain in the generic “Group” and the last four slides will be in your selected Group, for example “Verse 1”. This second scenario is shown in the image below.

You can right-click on any slide to start a new Group for the slides between that slide and the next Group. If slide three is selected above and named “Chorus”, only slides 3 and 4 will be affected. Slides 1 and 2 are still part of “Group”.

Groups can be renamed by repeating the naming process and selecting a new name. Groups can also be split into additional groups by right-clicking on one of the slides and selecting a new Group. In the image below, the last four slides have been split up into three groups, with slide five being the only one that is still part of Verse 1.

You can also turn on the Arrangement feature by clicking on the button in the top right of the document that looks like a flow chart. This will show each Group represented by its own button (“Token”).

Once you have grouped your slides into the correct Groups, you can make adjustments if necessary. When you drag slides around in the presentation you will see left and right arrows that are the same color as the Group that you hovering over, or a vertical teal colored bar that indicates you are adding the slides between Groups. The image below shows moving a slide into the red group, as indicated by the red arrow. Hold the Option key while dragging will duplicate, rather than move, the selected slide.

If you duplicate a group in the presentation, you will see a new group added to the Arrangements toolbar. This new group will function independent of the other one even though the name is the same. You may want to change the name on this new group to make it clear which one you are using in the Arrangement.

To create a new Arrangement for your presentation, open the Arrangements toolbar and click on the options menu on the left and select Add New Arrangement. You will be prompted to name this new Arrangement.

Once you have created your new Arrangement you will need to drag the Groups into the order that you want to be shown in that new Arrangement. Click on the Tokens in the top row and drag them to the second row to organize your Arrangement.

If you repeat a Group in your aArrangement, any edits made to one of those instances will apply to the others. For example, if you have Chorus in your Arrangement five times and add a background to the first slide of the Chorus, it will be added to the other instances of Chorus. This also applies to any changes made to the text on a slide. These changes are also reflected in other Arrangements that use the same Group. The properties of an Arrangement are not unique to that specific Arrangement.

Due to how Arrangements are stored within the song file, you can actually have the same presentation in your playlist multiple times with a different active Arrangement selected for each instance of the presentation. To change the Arrangement, right-click on the presentation in the playlist and select the Arrangement from the Select an Arrangement list. You’ll see the Arrangement name in [brackets] at the top of the presentation when you open as you can see in the image above. The selected Arrangement is stored as part of the playlist data, so exporting the playlist will maintain the proper Arrangement when you open it on another computer.