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Open a spreadsheet of households, add family photographs, and print a photo directory, a plain list or a folded booklet. It all runs in your browser, so the names, addresses and photographs stay on your computer.

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Households
Add households from a spreadsheet: Excel, or CSV, the plain format most spreadsheet programs can save

The spreadsheet stays on this computer. This page reads it in your browser and never uploads it, and Church Posting never sees your members' names or addresses.

    Open a household to edit it, leave it out, or give it a photograph.
    Photographs

    Name each file with the household's last name, such as turner.jpg. Where two households share a last name, add a first name: turner-daniel.jpg. Choose them all at once and the page matches each photograph to its household. A photograph it cannot match, such as for two households with the same names, you choose by hand inside that household.

    The photographs stay on this computer. The page saves a smaller copy of each in this browser and never uploads them.

    Pastors and staff
      Pastors and staff share one page after the cover.
      What prints for every household
      Format

      Letter pages print on ordinary letter paper, one page after another. A booklet prints half-size pages two to a sheet, in the order that folds and staples into a book.

      More

      In a booklet the pages appear in folding order. The dashed line marks the fold and does not print.

      The member app in Covenant OS has a directory that each household controls, so the book is never out of date. The beta opens Tuesday, December 1, 2026, and beta churches use it free.

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      Your spreadsheet

      Put one household on each row: last name, first names, children, street, city, state, ZIP, phone and email, with the column names in the first row. Excel and CSV both work, and so does any church software that exports its member list. The page guesses which column is which and shows its guesses, so you can correct them before the households are added.

      Leaving a household out

      Some households need to stay out of print, such as a family keeping its address from someone who has harmed it. Open the household and tick Leave this household out of the directory. It then appears nowhere in the book, not on a page and not in the index, and it stays in your list for next year. To hold back one detail instead, such as a phone number, tick it under Leave out for this household only.

      Photographs

      Name each photograph with the household's last name and choose them all at once; the page matches them by file name and lists any it could not match. Open a household to move or zoom its photograph in the square frame, or to choose one by hand. A family without a photograph gets a plain square with its initial.

      Printing it

      Letter pages

      Choose Photos or Plain list under Layout, beside the preview, then press Print or save as PDF. The photo directory prints six households to a page and the plain list about twenty-five, with a cover, a page for pastors and staff, and an index in the photo directory.

      Booklet

      Choose Booklet, then print two-sided and choose "flip on short edge." Each sheet holds four half-size pages, already in the order that folds into a book. Fold the stack in half and staple it along the fold. The page adds blank pages at the end when the book needs a multiple of four. If your printer prints one side at a time, print the odd pages, turn the stack over, put it back in the tray and print the even pages. Print one copy first to check the order before you print the run.

      Where your directory is saved

      The households are saved in this browser and the photographs in its storage, on this device only. To keep the directory for next year or finish it on another computer, use More, then Download a project file, which carries the photographs too, and open that file from the same menu.

      Where should we send it?

      Your file is ready. Add your email to get it, and we will send you one useful email a week.

      Each email has a link that stops them.