Keyboard shortcuts for projection
Every key in the console, plus the song shortcuts that jump to a verse or the chorus without leaving the keyboard.
Mid-service, reaching for the mouse costs a second you do not have. Everything you do often, you do from the keyboard.
Moving through the session
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| Right arrow, Down arrow, Space | Next slide |
| Left arrow, Up arrow | Previous slide |
| B | Black screen: hide, then restore |
| R | Jump to the sermon summary |
| F | Fullscreen console |
| Enter | Send the preview to live (Preview mode) |
| Ctrl + B | Open the Bible to project a verse |
| Esc | Leave fullscreen, or close the open panel |
Tip: the black screen (B) is made for prayer time and transitions. The congregation sees a dark screen, your list stays untouched, and you carry on exactly where you were.
Prepare without the room seeing it
By default, everything you touch goes live instantly. The Preview button separates the two: what you are setting up on one side, what the congregation sees on the other.
- Click Preview in the top bar. The right-hand panel turns gold.
- Arrows, clicks and digits then move the preview. The hall screen does not move.
- Enter, or the Send to live button, puts the prepared slide on screen — and the preview steps forward, ready for the next one.
This is what lets you fix a typo in a verse, find the right verse of a song, or rehearse a whole running order without anyone in the room noticing.
The marker to know: in the list, the coloured bar on the left marks what is live, the gold outline marks what is prepared. The phone always drives live: it is a send tool, not a preparation tool.
Jumping inside a song
This is the shortcut that changes the most on a Sunday morning. The worship leader says "back to the chorus" or "verse 3" — you are there before they finish the sentence.
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| 1 to 9 | Go to that verse |
| 0 | Go to the next chorus |
Three things to know, and they explain the whole behaviour:
- These keys only do something inside a song. On a sermon, a verse or an announcement they do nothing at all — rather than throwing you somewhere random in the session.
- "0" goes to the NEXT chorus, not the first one. A chorus comes back three or four times in an arrangement: pressing twice takes you to the following repeat. On the last chorus, the key wraps back to the first.
- You always land at the start of the section. If a verse is long enough to span two slides, "2" shows the first of the two, never the second.
If the verse you asked for is not in the arrangement, nothing happens. That is deliberate: an unexpected jump mid-song is visible to the whole room.
Knowing where you are
The section name — "Chorus", "Verse 2" — shows in three places:
- in the console list, on every row, in the section's colour;
- on the stage return, top left and large: that is where the worship team needs it most, with the section coming up announced in the "Up next" band;
- on the hall screen, at the bottom, under the words. It is on by default: a congregation that sees "Chorus" coming knows it can join in, and not everyone knows every song by heart. A church that prefers a bare screen turns it off in Customisation.
Driving without a keyboard
The phone remote does the same by touch, from any phone on the network, with nothing to install.