ChordPro is how many worship teams keep their chord sheets, in apps and on websites. Turning those sheets into ProPresenter slides by hand means copying every verse and building every group. This page reads ChordPro files and writes ProPresenter 7 documents with the sections as groups.
ChordPro .pro files and ProPresenter .pro files
Both formats use the .pro extension, but they are different things: a ChordPro file is text,
a ProPresenter 7 document is binary. Files are recognised by their content, so upload them as
they are, whatever their extension (.pro, .cho, .chordpro, .chopro, .crd).
How the song is built
{title}becomes the song title,{artist},{lyricist}and{composer}the authors,{copyright}and a CCLI number ({ccli}or{meta: ccli …}) the CCLI details.{start_of_chorus},{start_of_verse: Verse 2}and{start_of_bridge}blocks become groups named after their label. Paragraphs outside these blocks become verses, and a paragraph that starts with a label line (“Chorus:”) or follows{c: Verse 2}takes that name.- A
{chorus}line, or{c: Chorus}on its own, means “sing the chorus again”: the chorus is stored once and the song order becomes an arrangement. - Empty lines inside a block start a new slide.
- Several songs in one file, separated by
{new_song}, become separate documents.
What is left behind
ProPresenter slides don't show chords the way a chord sheet does, so the chords are removed from the lyrics; the conversion notes say which songs had them. Tabs and chord grids are skipped. If you want to keep the chords, convert to OpenLyrics or ChordPro instead, which keep them.
Unzip the download and drag the .pro files onto a ProPresenter 7 library, then apply your
theme.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Worship Song Library Converter.