Set Your Preferences

• 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 
• 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

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 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.

Restart by Module

• Each Module’s slide numbering will begin at 1 and will continue sequentially within the Module
• You may want to use this setting when each Module in your course has a unique slide deck

FYI

• Absolute and Restart by Module are mutually exclusive numbering options
• It is not possible to do both within the same Guidebook

Do Not Manually Alter the Slide Numbers inserted by LGPro

• Remove the automatic numbering functionality that LeaderGuide Pro provides

• And result in A LOT more work for you because you will then have to renumber every slide yourself.

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 on the LGPro ribbon 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 the LGPro Special>Resize and Border Images function

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

Do Not Insert ICues into Column 1 of a Content Block

• Column 1 in your Facilitator Guides and Participant Guides is EXCLUSIVELY reserved for use by LeaderGuide Pro
• Column 1 holds:
  • Content Block Icons - inserted by clicking Content Blocks on the LGPro ribbon
  • Slide Number references - when slides are imported
  • Synced Participant Guide page number references - when guidebooks are synced for page numbers

Logo

• Your logo will appear on the cover page of the Guidebooks you create
  • Until you make this change, every Cover page has a logo placeholder showing the Great Circle Learning logo
  • This spot on a Cover page carries the LGP Style name: zLGP CoverPage Graphic
  • If this Style Name is removed, then LeaderGuide Pro will not be able to insert YOUR logo into that spot
• Use the Browse button to navigate to and select your logo file
• Your logo will insert on new Guidebooks you create, replacing the Great Circle Learning logo

• This setting allows you to set a preferred Collection that will automatically be used for the Guidebooks you create - unless you opt to use a Custom Collection as you are using the Start a New Guidebook wizard
  • A Collection is a master set of document parts, icons, styles and various other controls that determine the look and feel of your finished Guidebooks
• Use the Browse button to navigate to the Collections and select the one you prefer
• If you need to change the Collection in use in a Guidebook you have created:
  • Click ATTACH on the LGPro ribbon and select the Collection you need
  • LeaderGuide Pro will update everything but the Cover page and any changes you may have made to the Introductory Materials section
    • For the change to include the Cover page and Introductory Materials section, run an Extract

Copyright

• Your copyright will appear on the Acknowledgements page (the inside front cover) of each Guidebook and will repeat in the footer on the odd numbered pages
• Enter your copyright as it is to be listed
• While running in free trial evaluation mode, the Great Circle Learning copyright is automatically inserted

Revision

• Your Revision Date will appear on the Acknowledgements page (the inside front cover) of each Guidebook and will repeat in the footer on the odd numbered pages
• You can customize the stem of the revision label here

• For example, instead of “Revision Date:” you could edit it to
  • Rev. #: or
  • Revised On:
  • or to anything you wish to use
• The actual date inserted will be the current day's date - the day you create your new Guidebook
• To update the date
  • Manually edit the date on the Acknowledgments page
  • Then click Update All Fields on the LeaderGuide Pro ribbon to reflect the edit in the page footers

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 columns 2 and 3 in the Content Blocks on your Lesson pages
• 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 using the Start a New Guidebook wizard

The Guidebook Design Template provides:

• Five pre-formatted Module and Lesson designs (course outlines)
• And the ability to add custom course outlines

If you choose to disable this option:

• Your new Facilitator Guides will set up with one New Module page followed by one New Lesson page
• To add more Modules and Lesson, click the Module or Lesson buttons on the LGPro ribbon

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 ICUES 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 you need to do next