ProPresenter 7 Tutorial: How themes decide which textbox to apply to

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Solve ProPresenter 7 Theme Confusion! Learn how to effectively manage themes with multiple text boxes in ProPresenter 7. Paul Alan Clifford shares his experimental results and practical tips in this informative video. Watch and master your skills! Click here to learn more: • ProPresenter 7 Tutoria...
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[@SecondSlavicBaptistChurch]

I can confirm that the issue lied in the naming and the order of the text boxes. In our church we display two bible translations (bilingual church) and Pro7 loved to change between the two languages in our lower third theme for the live stream. I made sure that the text box names and order matched between the two themes and it resolved our issue! Thanks!

[@mcramp20]

Glad you tackled this it can be very confusing!
Thanks

[@PaulClifford]

Glad to help. I'm not 100% sure I got it right, but we'll see.

[@chrisw1462]

According to RenewedVision (responding to my question), the only way to guarantee text goes into the right text box is to name the text boxes the same in the Slide and in the Theme. Without a matching name, It will try to use the order of the textboxes in the Object box, otherwise, but there are no guarantees. From my experiments, if either set of textboxes (theme or slide) has numbers in the names, e.g. Text 1, Text 2, Text 3... (and names don't match), it will try to use the number order, lowest to highest, to match them.

[@sylviabachelor1203]

Paul, It's not the size of the text box that makes the difference. In both cases (6&8) the text box names match the names in the theme. That's why applying the theme doesn't change the order of the boxes. It's only when the names do not match AND the top/bottom arrangement doesn't match the z-order that there is a problem.
To test what I'm saying, duplicate #5, then on the duplicate rename the boxes, then apply the theme.
Best practice is to give each text box a different name, AND make the z-order match the top/bottom arrangement of the boxes. Size doesn't matter. Then do the same for the text boxes in your theme. That way neither Pro7 nor the operator will get confused about which is which.