Hoster Editing

[Lonman]

Originally Posted by RIKKI TIKKI

and their customers won't appreciate it anyway! lol

Boy ain't THAT the truth!!!!

[kod]

All I'm trying to say is "There Aint No Shortcuts!". Everybody that has a good looking functional song book has spent countless hours getting it to that point, and their customers won't appreciate it anyway! lol

I've been using Excel for my books for years, even back when it was just for my personal song book.

And believe me, I have learned there are no "short cuts." I have spent countless hours in the last 10 years getting them to the point they are now (no duplicates except when a song is sung by more than one artist).

I too have my books (6 of them) reprinted only once a year because of costs (almost 2,000 pages for 6 books). Each book has songs listed by Song and by Artist in the same notebook (large notebooks).

However, I print my own "new songs" sections myself and use a different color paper and add them to the front of each section of my books for quick reference.

I get compliments on my books from customers that have visited other KJ's and seen some of their books.

I have put a lot of time in my books and take a lot of pride in them...

[a2kmike]

I have had the full version of Hoster with the Songbook functions since 2003 but I have only used it to make a songbook once. Sorry to say that there is other songbook software that works better and is much less labor intensive. The actual program that I use can read the .kma file extensions from your songs folder and build a songbook and then remove the duplicates with a single click...all you must do is proof the book to make sure all the Artists and Titles are spelled the same.
I found that the Hoster songbook feature was the most labor intensive of any book software I have ever used...but the Hoster Karaoke Show program is the easiest to use of any