When you are the person behind the computer during a meeting or worship service. The person behind the scenes (maybe even at the back of the room) who is pressing the up arrow and following along with the words of the song or an outline of a sermon. Usually it’s a no brainer, press the up arrow at the right time. But it’s being prepared for those unexpected turns, like the worship leader decides to sing a chorus one more time.. what are my options.
Preparation is the one of the keys to success. Now knowing which key to hit is important, and it’s part of preparation, we will cover that later. When I talk about preparation is knowing what slides are in the deck, reviewing them before anyone starts talking. The best way to do a good job is knowing your options. I suggest also you print out the slides in the deck on paper to have at hand. Make notes, and even ask your worship leader where there might be some sway. He/she might not know, but might have a good idea. Knowing the slide numbers is also very important, as I’ll show you later in this blog. During a slideshow you can hop around, but you need to know where to hop.
Knowing the keys, the keys on the keyboard. Here is a list of slide show keys and I’ll go into more detail later:
Ø F5 Begin the slide show
Ø Esc End the slide show
Ø B Black Screen show\hide
Ø W White Screen show\hide
Ø N Next slide
Ø Up arrow Next slide
Ø P Previous slide
Ø Down arrow Next slide
Ø 01 on number keyboard Slide 1
Ø 12 on number keyboard slide 12.. for each slide
Knowing the number of the slide, if you need to hop just type in the number of the slide… Here’s a great example… The service is running late, the worship leader during the hymn says “last verse”, but the slide is on the last line of the first verse and there are two more verses in between, do you press N N N N? No, you’ve got your printout with slide 34 being the start of the last verse, just type 34 on the numeric keypad. Simple, and you look like the pro!
Next time – Timing for an automatic show!