Set Your Preferences

• Add Lesson Column Label Borders automatically adds a single line, 0.25-point weight frame around the Lesson page column headings in Facilitator guides

• Put Synced Page Refs in Column 3 places Participant Guide page number references into Column 3 of the Facilitator Guide versus the default location, which is in Column 1

• If the Facilitator Guide has only 2 columns, then this setting is ignored and the page references are placed into Column 1 

• Automatic Check for Updates alerts you when an update is available 

• Start Modules on Odd # Pages sets each new Module as a new section - and the first page will be an odd numbered page

• Automatically Insert Lesson Time Block inserts a Lesson Time block immediately below the Lesson name on the first page of a new Lesson

• Automatically Insert Lesson Objective Block inserts an Objective block either immediately below the Lesson name on the first page of a new Lesson - or below the Time block if that is also being used
• Include Revision Date inserts the revision date info on the Acknowledgments page - and repeats in the odd page footers
• Include Copyright inserts your Copyright info on the Acknowledgments page - and repeats in the odd page footers 
• Add Slide Borders adds a single line, 0.25-point weight frame around imported slide images

Restart by Module

• If this preference is set, then each Module’s slide numbering will begin at 1 and will continue sequentially within the Module

• It is most appropriately used when each Module in your course has unique slide decks supporting them.

• Absolute numbering and Restart by Module numbering are mutually exclusive options

• It is not possible to do both within the same Guidebook

Sequential

• This is the default method of slide numbering

• Imported slides are consecutively numbered from 1 to X

• If you insert new slide blocks in between imported slides, update the numbering by clicking Update All Fields button on the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon

 Absolute

Use Absolute if ...

• you are going to skip some slides or if you are importing slides from multiple files -

• and you want the slide numbering to represent the actual PowerPoint slide numbers.

 Column Headings

• These settings apply exclusively to Facilitator Guides

• These labels appear at the top of the the table row columns on Lesson pages

• Edit them here and they become your default setting for all new Facilitator Guides

• Alternatively, these labels can also be edited when creating a new guidebook - when changes are needed just for a specific project

Script Icons

These are smaller, optional, Instructional Cue icons that you can insert into columns 2 or 3 of the Content Blocks on your Lesson pages

• Insert by clicking the ICues button and then using the ICues Task Pane

• The default ICues size is 0.33 inches (0.85 centimeters) high

• You can adjust the default setting to the height you prefer
• Changes apply to new ICues that you add 
• To resize existing ICues already in a guidebook, use Special>Resize and Border Images 

If you change the ICue icon height to less than 0.25 inches (0.635 cm)

• and the icon is the first character in a paragraph when inserted

• then Word will treat the icon as a bullet and will indent the paragraph when you click Return
• You can remove the indent by clicking Word's Undo button 

• Click Design Assistant to open the Design Assistant task pane

• There are 6 optional design assistance settings available to you, described below

AUTO OPEN NAVIGATION PANE

• With this setting marked to allow, the Navigation task pane displays automatically when starting a new guidebook or opening an existing one

• It is used is for quick access to Content Blocks, the TOC, Modules, or Lessons

• The Navigation task pane can also be opened from the Insert group on the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon

AUTO OPEN ICUES PANE

• When set to allow, the ICues task pane opens automatically on the right side of your screen

• It is used is for inserting smaller graphical Instructional Cues into the body text of your document

• The ICues task pane can also be opened from the Insert group on the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon

GUIDEBOOK DESIGN TEMPLATE

• This controls whether or not you have access to the Guidebook Design Template when starting a new guidebook

The Guidebook Design Template provides:

• Five preformatted Module and Lesson design maps (course outlines)

• And the ability to add custom course outlines

MODULE AND LESSON ASSISTANT

As you add a New Module into your guidebook, this option allows you to also add:

• multiple Lessons

• Lesson times and

• Lesson objectives

This can save a great deal of time 

HIGHLIGHTED CONTENT BLOCK PROMPTS

• This inserts highlighted yellow prompts in the Content Blocks you insert into your guidebook

• If you are a new user of LeaderGuide Pro these prompts will help focus you on the necessary tasks you need to complete as you build out the guidebook

HIGHLIGHTED ICUE PROMPTS

• Similar to Content Block prompts, these yellow highlighted prompts insert immediately following the graphic cue and optional title text that insert from the ICues Task Pane

• They guide you to what to do next