Presentation Prompter uses a two mode system to separate editing and prompting operations. Edit mode offers powerful editing features and lets you setup your scripts. Prompt mode locks down the script to prevent accidental edits, turns your keyboard into a teleprompter controller, optimizes performance, and handles prompting.
Presentation Prompter automatically enters Prompt mode when the prompter is started. This means the only time you need to explicitly change modes is when you want to go back to Edit mode. For new users, the easiest way to do this is to click the Mode toolbar button. As you become more experienced with Presentation Prompter, pressing the “Go to Edit mode” hot key (default is the Escape key ⎋) will be faster and more convenient. Lastly, you can always toggle modes by choosing
(think “T for Toggle”) which is useful for some controllers.Note that if you make use of two screens from the “Use second display” option in the Preview window your talent will never see any change modes. The talent screen always appears with the script of the frontmost document.