Power Tip: Using variables to Search and Replace in Word

Thanks for sharing this. I had not seen that type of citation style before, so now i'll be keeping an eye out for it.

Using the variables is also handy for bible milestones. The key, as you have indicated, is consistent formatting.

NB.Mick said:

The Logos PB builder supports autodetection of bible references in European notation in some languages

I was also happy to discover that the PB compiler also automatically detects citations using Roman numerals, (e.g. John iii. 16), which I find in Owen's work. Maybe it's a Puritan thing, but I have also seen it as late as the late 1950s in a work by J.I. Packer.

Fr Devin Roza said:

This technique can also be used

Thanks so much! I adapted the technique to remove trailing spaces after superscript verse numbers. Works great!

I'd wondered how to use wild cards... your post led me to try them, & it's powerful! 

Thanks again!

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Fr Devin Roza said:

post a screenshot of your search and replace window

To remove the trailing space, I added a space at end of the "Find What" term. The "Replace With" term has no trailing space. Problem solved, so long as Logos keeps putting a superscript space after the superscript number. And since I don't care whether the number is single or double digit (this Find What only finds the least significant digit), it works slick.

Hi Stephen,

i am not the one you were addressing, but this might possibly be helpful for you.

Stephen Chaffer said:

I'm new to preparing PPB, I would like more information about preparing the proper terms, have you further adice on the subject.

A. Read the Personal Book wiki page for details on using PBs.

B. Get the PB macros for Word.

C. If you don't understand a particular feature, then start a new post here on the forum and ask your question. Give as much details as possible so others can help.

Stephen Chaffer said:

Also, why does my Hebrew Text not appear in my commentary I'm making

You might start by copying Hebrew text from Logos4 and pasting it into your Word docx file. If you are familiar with typing Hebrew directly into Word, then make sure you are using the same font that is used in Logos4.
[Below in the image you can see that my PB has Hebrew entered into it. Layered above my PB is Word where i show the font selection box that Word provides, relative to text that i have pasted from L4 into Word.]

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Fr Devin Roza said:

fgh said:

Please don't call it "the European format". It's as foreign to me as it is to Americans, if not more.

Didn't mean to offend.

I know. I'm just a bit sensitive to Europe being treated as if it was one nation. It isn't. After all, we've spent most of history at each others' throats. There are vast cultural differences even between Sweden and Norway, or Sweden and Finland.

Fr Devin Roza said:

It could be that it's something typical of the Romance Languages more than Europe per se

My guess, from the languages you've mentioned and my own experience of which [British] English books I've found it in, would be that it's originally a Catholic thing. I don't think I've ever seen it in Swedish.

Fr Devin Roza said:

If you know a quick way to do this please share.

I use LibreOffice, not Word, and I do it so seldom that I have to look it up each time, so I'm afraid I can't. It's easy enough once you've got the strings right, though.

Fr Devin Roza said:

something which the simple solution I proposed handles perfectly (as "complicated references" get a space after the comma when it is not a Scriptural citation)

With "complicated" I was more referring to something like "8:4-6,11,14; 17; 21:12f,16; 23". Before you replace commas with colons you have to make sure that the book doesn't already use colons for something else, or you'll end up with a string where you can no longer figure out what's supposed to be a verse and what's supposed to be a chapter.

Just did an encyclopedia, 540 Headwords coded in 1 sec. I'm suffering from perma-grin right now [:D]

Fr Devin Roza said:

James Taylor said:

Fr Devin Roza said:

This technique can also be used to insert the codes which Personal Books need to indicate that a certain heading is, for example, a Dictionary Head Word. If all the head words in your dictionary have the same formatting, in just a matter of a few minutes of work you could apply the information that the Logos Personal Book needs to recognize 1000s of head words.

Have you actually done this Fr Devin Roza? If so, Could you please post a screen shot of the find and replace window as you did for the above example?

I hadn't done it, but I did right now. Here are some test files, and the search. In the test file, the headwords we want to mark up are using Heading 1, which is what I will be replacing with the text Logos/Verbum needs to tell it this is an Encyclopedia headword. When you import the book, be sure to classify it as an encyclopedia.

Original Dictionary file: 5822.Test.docx

Dictionary file ready for Logos/Verbum: 6036.TestResult.docx

Here is the search you need to run to get from the original to the final file. Just click Replace All, and it will do all of them at once:

A few notes about this search:

- The search is for text that is Heading 1, any number of characters or words long, until it hits a carriage return (^13).

- The replace text uses \1 to indicate the variable (everything in between the () in the search string). Note that the replace string uses ^p instead of ^13. This is important, as ^13 does not work correctly in the replace string to indicate a carriage return (^13 doesn't work properly with styles in the replace box). 

Okay so I need the find and replace for all scripture references.

Examples:

John 3:16               [[@Bible: John 3:16]]

Numbers 21:33-35  [[@Bible: Numbers 21:33-35]]

The goal is first to get the references to a line by themselves and then assign them to a heading style. Then the above procedure will work. I've gotten pretty creative with this process to make it happen.. for instance, often you will find (3:17) which has to be told to find ( and replace with John and force a new paragraph at a certain heading style, then remove ) at that heading style.  so you end up with John 3:17 at whichever heading style, on a line by itself.

Question for anyone or Keep Smiling for Jesus:

How do I run the prior Find and Replace if I want to keep the Scripture References but duplicate the milestones

For example  

Matthew 2:19-23; Luke  2:1-20, 39; John  2:1-11; 2 Peter 1:16-18   

I want to end up with

Matthew 2:19-23 [[@Bible Matthew 2:19-23]]; Luke  2:1-20, 39 [[@Bible Luke 2:1-20, 29]]; John  2:1-11 [[@BibleJohn 2:1-11]]; 2 Peter 1:16-18 [[@Bible 2 Peter 1:16-18]] 

Hi, I am looking for a find and replace that can take a verse range like 6:1-12 to [[@Bible:Genesis 6:1-12]]. Can anyone help me please? I will appreciate it greatly. Thanks.

I am now getting used to Wildcards. Thanks to this post!

Finding is not the problem at all, but I noticed that I am surely misunderstanding something in the "replace" part. 

I have a Personal Bible that is formatted like:

[[@Bible:Ge 1:7]]7. {{field-on:bible}}E assim aconteceu. Deus criou um espaço para separar as águas da terra das águas dos céus.{{field-off:bible}}

It shows "7." before the verse text. 

What I am trying to achieve is to replace that with 1:7 (this is a link) before the verse text. 

So, the idea is to replace "7." with "[[1.7>>Bible: Ge 1:7]]

I am using the following to find the string:

(??[\@]Bible([A-Z][a-z]@&gt( )([0-9]@&gt(:)([0-9]@&gt([\]]{2})([0-9]@>.)

The string used for replace is:

\1\2\3\4\5\6\7 [[\4:\6>>Bible: \2 \4\5\6]]

The problem is that the result is:

[[@Bible:Ge 1:7]] [[1:7>>Bible: Ge \4\5\6]] {{field-on:bible}}E assim aconteceu. Deus criou um espaço para separar as águas da terra das águas dos céus.{{field-off:bible}}

I am certainly misusing the \4\5\6 part because it seems word stops recognizing them as representatives of the ( ) parts. 

Please help me understand and solve that! 

Thank you!