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Lyrics to PowerPoint

Paste song lyrics and get a PowerPoint presentation — one verse or chorus per slide, big centered text, with the verse number and chorus tag in your accent color. Pick a font, drop in a background image, and everything runs in your browser.

The verse number, chorus prefix and any “[:”/“:]” repeat brackets use the accent color below. Lines with no prefix stay plain.

Used for every slide. The exported .pptx references the real font by name, so it looks right in PowerPoint/Keynote/Impress on any machine that has it installed, and falls back gracefully if not.

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JPG, PNG or WebP — shown behind the text on every slide

Same size on every slide except the title, which always sizes itself. Drag to override the auto-fit size.

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How it turns lyrics into slides

Built for worship teams, karaoke nights and lyric videos — paste a full song and get a clean, presentation-ready deck in seconds, with no template fiddling.

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1. Paste the lyrics

An optional title line, verses like 1. and a chorus like R: are detected from blank-line-separated blocks in your text.

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2. Fine-tune

Change the verse suffix or chorus prefix to match your lyrics, pick your own accent, background and text colors, choose a font, drop in a background image, repeat the chorus after each verse, and add “bis.” to the final chorus.

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3. Download

Get a ready .pptx: the biggest font that fits with margins, and your chosen background, text and verse/chorus accent colors — black, white and dark yellow by default.

By default, verse and chorus slides all share one auto-fit font size — the biggest size that fits every slide with margins — while the title sizes itself independently. Drag the size slider to override that font size on every slide at once, or click Auto-fit to go back. The file opens in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Keynote and LibreOffice Impress like any other presentation.

Slides people can actually read

Song slides are read at a distance, often by people standing, frequently in poor light, and always while doing something else. That makes legibility the entire design problem. Text should be far larger than seems necessary — on a projected screen, 40 point is a reasonable floor and larger is usually better.

Two to four lines per slide is the working range. More than that and people lose their place; fewer means constant advancing that distracts the operator and the room. Break at natural phrase boundaries rather than filling each slide to capacity, since a line split mid-phrase is genuinely disorienting when sung.

High contrast matters more than colour scheme. Light text on a dark background is generally better for projection, because a dark background emits less light into the room and reduces glare. Avoid thin or decorative typefaces entirely — a plain, heavy sans-serif is the right choice, and adding a subtle outline or shadow keeps text readable if it ever falls over a background image.

Structure and running the sequence

Repeat the chorus in full wherever it occurs rather than marking it. Nobody can navigate backwards mid-song, and a slide reading "Chorus" is useless to anyone who does not already know it — which is precisely the people who need the slides.

Build the full sequence in the order it will be performed, including repeats, and confirm it with whoever is leading. The most common failure in live use is a structure that diverges from what is actually sung, which leaves the operator guessing and the room reading the wrong words.

A blank slide between songs is worth including: it gives the operator a safe resting place and avoids leaving the last line of one song on screen during a transition. Keeping the deck in a consistent template means a late change can be dropped in without reformatting.

Copyright, which genuinely applies

Song lyrics are copyrighted works, and projecting them for an audience is both a reproduction and a public display — both restricted acts. This applies regardless of whether the event is free, charitable or religious, and regardless of whether anyone profits.

For churches and similar organisations, blanket licences exist for exactly this purpose. CCLI is the most widely used, with equivalents in various countries, and typically covers reproducing lyrics for congregational use across a large catalogue. Licences have conditions — commonly requiring the song title, author and licence number to appear — and cover only works in their catalogue, so a song outside it needs separate permission.

For other settings — schools, events, community groups — check what your existing licences cover, since educational and performance licences differ in scope and a performing-rights licence does not necessarily permit reproducing lyrics on screen. Purchasing sheet music or a recording does not grant the right to project the words. Public domain material is unrestricted, and for hymns that means the text and any specific arrangement must both be out of copyright, which are often different dates. This is general information rather than legal advice — check with your licensing body if you are unsure.

Lyrics to PowerPoint FAQ

How does it know which line is the title?

If the very first line of your pasted text is followed by a blank line, it becomes the title slide. If your lyrics start straight with a numbered verse, no title slide is created.

How are verses and the chorus detected?

Each verse starts with a number and a dot, like “1.”; the chorus starts with “R:”. You can change both prefixes if your lyrics use a different style, and the matching part is colored with your accent color. A verse or chorus with no matching prefix just renders in the plain text color — no accent is applied.

Can I change the colors?

Yes — three color pickers control the accent (verse number/chorus tag), background and text color. They default to dark yellow on black with white text, but you can pick any combination.

Can I change the font?

Yes — pick from 12 fonts across sans-serif, serif and monospace. It's used for every slide, and the exported .pptx references the real font by name so PowerPoint, Keynote and Impress render it correctly if it's installed, falling back gracefully if not.

Can I add a background image?

Yes — drop an image onto the background-image box and it appears behind the text on every slide. Fill crops it to cover the whole slide; Fit shows the whole image with your background color filling any leftover space. An opacity slider blends it with the background color, and an optional text shadow keeps text readable over busy images.

Can I control the font size?

Yes — every verse and chorus slide shares one font size, auto-fit to the largest size that fits them all with margins. Drag the size slider to set your own size across every slide, or click Auto-fit to go back. The title slide always sizes itself independently.

Can the chorus repeat after every verse automatically?

Yes — if your lyrics contain exactly one chorus block, a checkbox lets you insert a copy of it as its own slide after every verse.

What does the “bis.” option do?

When enabled, it appends “ bis.” in your accent color to the last line of the final chorus slide, a common convention meaning the whole chorus repeats — not just that one line.

What do “[:” and “:]” mean in my lyrics?

They're repeat brackets — the text between them is meant to be sung twice. Both markers are colored with your accent color wherever they appear, on any line, so they stand out the same way the verse number and chorus tag do.

Is it free and private?

Yes — the .pptx file is built entirely in your browser, so nothing is uploaded.

How many lines should each slide have?

Two to four, broken at natural phrase boundaries. Set the text large — around 40 point as a floor for projection — with high contrast, and prefer light text on a dark background to reduce glare in the room.

Do I need a licence to project lyrics?

Usually yes. Lyrics are copyrighted and projecting them is a restricted act regardless of whether the event is free or charitable. CCLI and its equivalents provide blanket licences for congregational use; other settings should check what their existing licences actually cover.