Resizing Fonts

Steven Barber

At our church our screens our small- the standard size of 65 for the font is just not big enough-

What is the best way to enter in songs into the program with a bigger font?

I cant figure out an easy way to do this and make the slides work correctly and still use songselect??

Dan Burkhead

This is a drawback of Proclaim because it does not automatically make new lines for you, you have to make them yourself.  Here's what I do.

In the lyrics box, adjust the lyrics to 4-5 words per line, maybe more or less, depending on the size of the words themselves; the key is to make the lines relatively the same size.

Adjust the lyrics to be 4-5 lines at a time to make 4-5 line "boxes" of lyrics, with a blank line in between each set, this will create a "new" slide for each "box" of lyrics.

In the "Customize" section of the song (You have the Lyrics, Background, Notes, Signals buttons, and at the far right is the "Customize" button), adjust the lyrics box to stretch to each side, then adjust the lyrics size. As you adjust the lyrics size, the font should be increasing or decreasing.

If the font is not increasing even though you are increasing the size, there is a line of lyrics which are already stretched out as far as they can be.  You need to find that slide, and break that line down to two lines instead. 

Rinse and repeat until you have the desired font size.  Hope this helps!