hollingwood Hi<br>We use Openlp at our Church but have a problem when using Powerpoint during the service. We have Powerpoint slides with various items of Prayers, Sermon notes and illustrations. We may start the service projecting Powerpoint slides of say Prayer of Approach/Call to worship, then switch to song library for some songs and then switch back to presentation to continue Powerpoint slides of other items in service. However when we switch back to Powerpoint it always starts back at the beginning and we have to scroll through the slides to get to the place where we were. By the time we get to the end of the service this could be many slides, and is quite awkward. We prefer to run everything through Openlp as we have the projected image just right.<br>Is there any way we can switch between songs and Powerpoint and back returning to the correct place in Powerpoint?<br>Thank you<br>hollingwood <br>
raoul I presume you're using PowerPoint through OpenLP. You should be able to expand the presentation item in the service manager and double click on the slide you want to start with. I can't say for certain that this works as we don't use Windows, much less PowerPoint, at our church, but since all the other items in the service manager work like that I would expect presentations to do the same.
hollingwood Hi <br>Thank you for your comments. I think now we have answered our own questions.<br>The mistake we made was to put all the other parts of the service apart from the songs on one long Powerpoint file. Yesterday we changed the method and put the various components of the service on their own separate Powerpoint files interspersed with songs in the correct order listed in service manager box. <br>We then found we could switch back and forth when required in the service and it worked well.<br>hollingwood <br>
raoul At our church we have various bits of liturgy (common prayers, confessions, etc) in Custom Slides in OpenLP, as well as some of the common announcements. We rarely have presentations, to be honest. Less moving parts = less things that can fail.<br>
cardassianscot Alternatively you can save your powerpoint as a series of jpg images which can then be shown in OpenLP. We often use this, since sometimes speakers use a different font to the one of the computer used for OpenLP.