How the work actually gets done: getting started with Puzzle Maker Pro, batch generation with Time Saver, book assembly in Puzzle Book Studio, and producing PDF, image, PowerPoint and playable output from a single project.
Puzzle Maker Pro has one workflow, and every module uses it: tune a single puzzle until you like it, generate a batch, then assemble those puzzles into printable pages or a book. This walkthrough takes you along that path once, from your first preview to a saved, reusable book project, using Standard Word Search and Killer Sudoku as the worked examples.
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How to Make Shaped Mazes with Masking in Puzzle Maker Pro Summary:Masking fills a shape with a maze instead of a plain rectangle — a heart, an animal, a logo. The quickest way is to hand Puzzle Maker Pro a picture of the shape and let it do the rest. This guide shows that, then
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How to Batch Create Puzzles with Time Saver Summary:Time Saver allows you to batch create puzzles using multiple rows of settings, quantities, and presets. This helps automate repetitive puzzle generation tasks and makes it easier to build larger puzzle collections, books, and worksheet sets. Overview Creating one puzzle at a time works well for small
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How to Style Puzzles in Puzzle Maker Pro Summary:Puzzle styling in Puzzle Maker Pro allows you to customize fonts, colors, borders, and other visual elements to create professional-looking puzzles that match your publishing goals. This tutorial explains how the Style tab works and how to preview and apply design changes across your puzzle projects. Overview
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How to Use Time Saver: Rows, Presets, and Batch Controls Summary:Learn how to use Time Saver in Puzzle Maker Pro to create puzzle batches using rows, presets, and batch controls. This tutorial explains how rows work, how Settings Summary and Modified states behave, and how to generate multiple Smart Numbers puzzle sets efficiently. Overview The
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Understanding the New Time Saver Workflow in Puzzle Maker Pro Summary:Time Saver is a row-based batch workflow system in Puzzle Maker Pro where each row represents a complete puzzle setup. This tutorial explains how the new Time Saver workflow works, how rows behave, and how multiple puzzle sets can be generated efficiently in one run.
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When you first start Puzzle Maker Pro and try to set up the output settings, it can seem overwhelming. You can use the default settings unless you have specific requirements. Most advanced options have been requested by users (so don’t blame us for making it overwhelming) The Output settings are split between the output settings
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In this tutorial we’ll set up a puzzle book layout with different settings for left and right pages. Step 1 – Set the puzzle options In this example we’ll work with Sudoku, which is one of the easiest puzzles to create – since there’s no need to set up a word list or other input.
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This tutorial shows how to delete or copy presets for Puzzle Maker Pro. Preset Locations All the presets that are saved from within Puzzle Maker Pro are stored on your computer, in subfolders for “DocumentsBookPublisherToolsPresetsPMP”. An easy way to find that folder is to click the “Open Presets Folder” button on the Tools tab in
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You can find the CSV Splitter in the “Tools” menu in Puzzle Maker Pro. This is a simple tool to split certain CSV styles into separate text files. You may have created these CSV files for use in other software, or simply because you’ve been collecting your words and word lists in Excel. A CSV
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