Keyboard Shortcuts Every Operator Should Know

When the service is moving, the mouse is slow. Worship Manager’s shortcuts keep your hands on the keyboard for the actions you repeat every Sunday: switching tabs, clearing the screen, and toggling Present.

All of these use Ctrl plus a letter (defaults below). Hover a tab to see its current shortcut tip as well.

Selector tab shortcuts

Action	Default
Jump to Pinned	Ctrl + P
Jump to Songs	Ctrl + S
Jump to Bible	Ctrl + B
Jump to Media	Ctrl + M
Jump to History	Ctrl + H

Display action shortcuts

Action	Default
Toggle Present	Ctrl + T
Clear Display	Ctrl + D
Clear Overlay Text	Ctrl + X

Clear Overlay removes song/scripture text. Clear Display clears media and overlay together. Toggle Present opens or closes the display window — the same idea as the PRESENT / STOP button.

A fast live pattern

1. Ctrl + M → put up the welcome slide
2. Ctrl + S → run the worship set lyric by lyric
3. Ctrl + X → clear lyrics between songs if the background should stay
4. Ctrl + B → scripture reading
5. Ctrl + D → full clear before the message media
6. Ctrl + P → jump to anything you pinned for curveballs

Practice that sequence once in rehearsal and it becomes muscle memory.

Customize anything that fights your hands

Defaults are sensible, but laptops and OS shortcuts sometimes collide. You can change every listed action:

1. Open Settings.
2. Find Customise Keybinds.
3. Click the letter field for an action and type a new key.

Worship Manager saves the change immediately. It will reject a key that is already assigned to another action (DUPLICATE_KEYBIND), so each shortcut stays unique.

For a focused walkthrough with screenshots, see Configuring Keybinds in Worship Manager.

Tips

• Prefer letters you can hit without looking (home-row adjacent helps)
• Keep Clear Display on something hard to fat-finger mid-song
• If you share a booth PC, print this cheat sheet until the team learns the defaults
• Tab shortcuts + Pinned covers 90% of mid-service navigation

Next steps

• Put the shortcuts to work in the getting started service flow
• Pin songs and verses so Ctrl + P always has somewhere useful to land
• Read Preview vs Program so clears and presents stay intentional