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Menu Items

The following are the menu items that are listed across the top of OpenLP. There is a brief description or link for their intended purpose.

File

New Service

Creates a new service. new_service

Open Service

Load an existing service. new_service

Save Service

Saves your existing loaded service.

Save Service As:

Saves your newly created service.

Recent Files:

Displays your last files opened configurable here. configure_ui

Clear List: Clears your recent files list.

Import:

This provides the items you can import.

Settings:: Import your configurable settings from another computer. Learn more about backing_up.
Theme:: Import a theme that has been previously exported. import_themes
Song:: Import your songs previously exported. import_songs
CCLI SongSelect:: Import your songs from CCLI SongSelect. import_songs
Bible:: Import Bibles from another program, the internet or a previously exported Bible from OpenLP. import_bibles

Export:

Provides the items you can export.

Settings:: Export your configurable settings to a file to import to another computer. Learn more about backing_up.
Theme:: Export your theme. export_themes
Song:: Export your songs. export_songs

Print Service:

Gives you the ability to print your service. print_service

Exit:

Closes OpenLP. If there is an open service that has not been saved you will be prompted to do so.

View

Layout Presets:

These three settings are optimized for setup and live display.

Show all:: Displays all of the panels of OpenLP.
Setup:: Displays Preview, library and creating_service.
Live:: Displays the live panel and creating_service

Clicking on any of the next items will hide or show its respective panel.

Library:: Hide or show library.
Projector Controller:: Hide or show projector.
Service:: Hide or show creating_service.
Themes:: Hide or show themes.
Preview:: Hide or show the preview panel.
Live:: Hide or show the live panel.
Lock visibility of panels:: Using this lock will keep all your panel settings the way they are when clicked, whether hidden or showing. Click this again to unlock the panels.

Tools

Open Data Folder:: You can access your OpenLP data here. Your Bibles, songs, themes and other items are stored here.

Note: It is possible to delete a Bible, theme or another resource you need. If anything is deleted in this folder it is not recoverable through OpenLP.

Re-run First Time Wizard:

This will bring up the dialog box to run the first time wizard again. wizard

Update Theme Images:

Changing screen resolution can have an affect on theme images. Use this to correct the images.

Find Duplicate Songs:

Start wizard for detecting and removing duplicate songs.

Re-index Songs:

This rebuilds the internal song indexes to make them work following code corrections. You would generally use this after a software upgrade.

Song Usage Tracking:

Configure your song usage tracking. song_usage

Toggle Tracking:: Provides the means to turn song usage tracking on or off. There will be a visible check mark if song usage tracking is on.
Extract Tracking Data:: Brings up a dialog box to extract song usage data.
Delete Tracking Data:: Brings up a dialog box to delete song usage data.

PLUGIN_ALERTS Alert: Configure an alert. alerts

Settings

Plugin List:: Provides the configurable settings to control your plugin's. plugin_list
Language:: You can choose another language here or leave it on Autodetect.
Configure Formatting Tags:: Provides the configurable settings for formatting tags. formatting-tags
Configure Shortcuts:: Provides the configurable settings for shortcuts. shortcuts
Configure OpenLP:: Provides the configurable settings for OpenLP. configure

Help

Online Help:: This is a direct link to OpenLP's operating manual.
Web Site:: This is a direct link to OpenLP's web site.
About:: Provides information, credits and license for OpenLP.

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