Chord Chart Wizard description
A useful tool for automating the chord chart creation

Chord Chart Wizard is a software designed primarily for worship leaders, to automate the creation of documents like: music (chord charts), overheads, Powerpoint, song sheets (handouts), and set lists.

Whether you're a full-time worship pastor, a college worship leader, a guitar player, or a jazz musican, this program can save you time and make your music and materials look more professional.

Chord Chart Wizard will create documents instantly by using a simple plain text chord chart.

You can enter the text by typing, by copying and pasting from the web, or even by opening your existing Word docs. This plain text file will used to automatically generate all the different types of documents we need.

Here are some key features of "Chord Chart Wizard":

Format Chord Charts
· Formatting is applied automatically, saving you the time of tedious manual formatting. This makes it easier to make your documents have a consistent look.
· A special feature of this functionality is that you can use variable-width fonts (like Times or Arial) and still maintain EXACT spacing/alignment between the chords and lyrics; this is nearly impossible to do by hand.

Generate Lyrics / Overheads
· Lryics are extracted from the chord chart and formatted automatically into a document that can be used an an overhead or a singer's copy.

Generate Powerpoint
· What a time saver! Powerpoint files can be generated with a single click using only the plain text chord chart we started with. The formatting and background that you choose is instantly applied.

Microsoft Word (.doc) Exports
· If you want to edit the generated chord chart or lyrics, or if you simply want to save the file to share it, you can export all the generated files as Word documents.

Transpose Songs Into Other Keys
· You can transpose songs instantly, just by indicating the current key and new key of the song.

View Chord Diagrams
· You can chord diagrams for any chord just by hovering over it. The pop-up shows five different fingerings also well as the chord's spelling.


Requirements:

· OpenOffice 2.0 or greater
· Java Runtime Environment 1.4 or greater