Guests pane

The Guests pane shows all the guests in the current plan as individuals.

Appearance

The icon shown for a guest is determined from the details you have entered about their gender and age.

Guests who have declined or cancelled are shown with strikethrough text. Guests who have not been assigned to seats are shown in bold. Guests who are locked are shown with underlined text.

Click on the More button ( on Macintosh) to allow you to choose which columns are displayed.

Mode

drag & drop

Left click on one or more a guests and drag them to a seat or table in the Floor plan pane, Table plan or Schematic pane to assign them to a seat. Hold down the Shift key to also drag all the other members of their group.

Edit guest properties by double-clicking on them or right clicking/ Ctrl+Click and selecting Properties from the pop-up menu.

Right click or Ctrl+Click on a guest to display actions in a pop-up menu.

Double-click on a guest to display the Properties window.

Select more than one guest by using Shift+Click or Ctrl+Click/ +Click. Use Ctrl+A/ +A to select everything in this pane.

edit

Click on a guest property to edit it.

Use the Enter, Tab or Ctrl+arrow keys/ +arrow keys to change row or column. Use the Space or arrow down keys to edit a drop-down list.

Actions

Type text in the Find field to select a guest by name. E.g. if you type "jo" it will first try to find a guest with a name beginning with "jo" (e.g. John) and if it can't find one it will try to find a guest whose name contains "jo".

Click on any of the column headers (for example on Display name) to sort by that column.

Right click or Ctrl+Click on a guest to display actions in a pop-up menu.

Note that changing the RSVP status of a guest from Accepted may unassign them from their seat, depending on your settings in the Preferences window.

Drop a plan file onto this pane to open it. Drop a vCard, text or CSV file onto this pane to import it.

Drag a guest from another PerfectTablePlan window to add them to the current plan.

See also: Add or remove dots at the end of titles

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