How do I search for Kingdom of God?
Try opening up the Factbook tool and going to the article on Kingdom of God. Open the Passages section. You can save all the passages there as a Passage List or open them all directly in your preferred Bible.
You could also try a Bible search on {Section <PreachingTheme Kingdom of God>}
How can I convert my .docx sermons into the new Sermon editor documents?
This isnt for everyone, but I used this as a stopgap in the meantime to be able to get my sermons into the sermon editor.
I made an automated workflow for Keyboard Maestro (it's like Automator for Mac, but more powerful) that automates the steps to adding sermons to the editor.
Requirements:
What it does:
- 1. Opens the selected word documents in the Finder in Word one at a time and...
- 2. Copies all the text
- Updates the doc to docx if needed, saves, and closes Word
- Opens a new Sermon Editor Doc, and pastes in the content
- Pastes the filename as the title of the sermon
- Sets the preacher name (if its your sermon, just disable this as your name is already in there.)
- Sets the description to the file creation date (doesn’t really work)
Here is a demo of it working - https://youtu.be/YFsCCAIpOko
If you get funny results, change the timing of the pause after the paste to give it enough time. I just threw this together in about an hour last night, so it's not exactly well tested, but it worked for me and took about 15 seconds per sermon without errors.
Hopefully there will be a official import option in the future (with a way to browse the files), but in the meantime, this is what I did. So this is for the other 1-2 people out there who might be geeky enough to have this program in the first place, and want to try it.
P.s. If you wrote your sermons in Pages and need to bulk convert them to .docx first, here is a Automator file that does that. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mn7wlkk0bjmli97/AAC6WjdgdLvmDNdx_mYXSLKua?dl=0
How do I export the handout or questions in the Sermon Editor?
Just select either "Handout" or "Questions" from the tool bar, then click "Export" in the top right, and select "Print/Export."
How do I remove the headings from the handouts and questions?
By default, headings are included in Handouts and Questions.
But you can toggle this off from the main Sermon document
How do I get Grammatical Relationships into my Bible Word Study?
Do you need to add the section to your BWS?
How do I find everywhere that God is referred to as light? or rock?
Try using the Factbook Tool and entering the term "God"
Then go down to the "Referred to as" section and browse for the terms you are interested in
Note there are separate entries for "My rock" and "Rock"
And - currently in beta testing for the 7.1 release - the new INTERSECTS operator will really help
How do I default a palette to be resource specific?
You have to click the dropdown menu for the palette, not for the individual style. So click on the arrow next to "Emphasis Markup", not on the arrow next to "Orange Wavy Underline".
Is there a way to view the full title of a resource in the Favorites panel?
I right click on the resource in favorites. A drop down list will appear and you can rename it with the full title.
Is there a way to see all my highlights?
You can search within highlighted text using the "All [Bible] Text" dropdown. You can limit it by fields and highlights.
You can also search within by using the highlight search extension and the WITHIN operator. So you could search for Jesus WITHIN {Highlight Yellow Highlighter}.
If you just want to display all your highlights, you can search for {Highlight *}.
You can specify a particular highlighter style by replacing the * with the highlighter style name (e.g., {Highlight Yellow Highlighter}).
With Inline Search you can adjust the display context (for most Bibles: verse, paragraph, pericope; for most other resources: sentence, paragraph, article).
We've discussed adding an easier way to just click a button to show all highlights in a resource.
If you'd just like to work through your resource and see what you've highlighted, you can also set the next/previous selector to Annotation and click the down arrow.
Is it possible to print or export specific highlights?
It depends how you've stored your highlights. If you've set your highlighter palette style to "resource-specific note file," then you'll want to open the note document that corresponds to the resource you've highlighted. Change it to Quotes Views (top right), and then you can print/export.
Several ways, 1 catch all is...
Search for {Highlight *} in all open resources when you have the resource open that you are desiring to find highlights in
and to find all highlights (potentially lengthy) you can search {Highlight *} in all resources.
You can also click on an instance of the highlighting in the resource, and click "open annotation" and then you can display in Quotes view for a nice visual of all highlights in that file
How do I get a count of my personal books?
1. in your main library (any view) click the All Resources (blue link) and you will see the option to limit the library to display only Personal Books
2. you can also sort your library by edition:user
You can group/sort by the "Edition" column in the details views of the library.
You can also do a field search in your library for edition:user.
How do I copy Text Comparison into Word in column format?
Enter the reference range you want in the box at the top of the panel and hit enter. Then select the print option from the panel menu. Print to an RTF file and open the result in Word.
How do I find all the place names in John?
Well, first let me say that you are right, there should be an easy way to do this, it should be possible from the search panel with a simple <Place ANY> or something like that, it should be possible from the Bible Browser, etc.
That being said... here is a workaround solution until it is.
- In the Explorer, collapse all sections except for Biblical Places. Then run a search for John 1-21.
- Right click on the header, and select "Copy."
- Open up Microsoft Word, and paste the results into Word. You'll have one place on each line.
- Open up the Search and Replace dialog box. Run the following search and replace. In the "Find what", you are searching for "Paragraph Mark", which you can select from the "Special" button on the bottom left of the Find and Replace dialog. What we are doing is searching for carriage returns, and replacing them with the <Place> format Logos needs:
5. Fix the first and last one manually in Microsoft Word.
6. You'll end up with the following search string, which you can then search for in your preferred Bible, limiting yourself to the Gospel of John, with all the places reported by the Explorer:
<Place Galilee>, <Place Bethany (on the Mt. of Olives)>, <Place Sychar>, <Place Golgotha>, <Place Jerusalem>, <Place Judea>, <Place Sea of Galilee>, <Place Capernaum>, <Place Jordan>, <Place Samaria (city)>, <Place Cana>, <Place Nazareth>, <Place Siloam>, <Place Israel>, <Place Bethsaida>, <Place Kidron>, <Place Mount Gerizim>, <Place Bethany (Beyond the Jordan)>, <Place Jacob’s Well>, <Place Aenon>, <Place Bethlehem (of Judah)>, <Place Ophrah (of Benjamin)>, <Place Tiberias>, <Place Beth-Zatha>, <Place Salim>, <Place Places John the Baptist went>, <Place Any Place>, <Place Ramah (of Benjamin)>, <Place Mount of Olives>, <Place Places Jesus went>
7. From your Search Panel menu, select "Save as Passage List." Give it a new name if you like. FYI, I got 88 verses.
8. If you want your single, full list in canonical order to be usable in a document as a pure list of references: In the Passage List you just created, select Print/Export. Then, on the left hand pane, select "Print as minimized list". Finally, select "Copy to clipboard."
How do I make visual filters for . . .?
Well, first let me say that you are right, there should be an easy way to do this, it should be possible from the search panel with a simple <Place ANY> or something like that, it should be possible from the Bible Browser, etc.
That being said... here is a workaround solution until it is.
- In the Explorer, collapse all sections except for Biblical Places. Then run a search for John 1-21.
- Right click on the header, and select "Copy."
- Open up Microsoft Word, and paste the results into Word. You'll have one place on each line.
- Open up the Search and Replace dialog box. Run the following search and replace. In the "Find what", you are searching for "Paragraph Mark", which you can select from the "Special" button on the bottom left of the Find and Replace dialog. What we are doing is searching for carriage returns, and replacing them with the <Place> format Logos needs:
5. Fix the first and last one manually in Microsoft Word.
6. You'll end up with the following search string, which you can then search for in your preferred Bible, limiting yourself to the Gospel of John, with all the places reported by the Explorer:
<Place Galilee>, <Place Bethany (on the Mt. of Olives)>, <Place Sychar>, <Place Golgotha>, <Place Jerusalem>, <Place Judea>, <Place Sea of Galilee>, <Place Capernaum>, <Place Jordan>, <Place Samaria (city)>, <Place Cana>, <Place Nazareth>, <Place Siloam>, <Place Israel>, <Place Bethsaida>, <Place Kidron>, <Place Mount Gerizim>, <Place Bethany (Beyond the Jordan)>, <Place Jacob’s Well>, <Place Aenon>, <Place Bethlehem (of Judah)>, <Place Ophrah (of Benjamin)>, <Place Tiberias>, <Place Beth-Zatha>, <Place Salim>, <Place Places John the Baptist went>, <Place Any Place>, <Place Ramah (of Benjamin)>, <Place Mount of Olives>, <Place Places Jesus went>
7. From your Search Panel menu, select "Save as Passage List." Give it a new name if you like. FYI, I got 88 verses.
8. If you want your single, full list in canonical order to be usable in a document as a pure list of references: In the Passage List you just created, select Print/Export. Then, on the left hand pane, select "Print as minimized list". Finally, select "Copy to clipboard."
If you want to include quotes, echoes, and so on from the Old Testament as well as allusions:
{Label Intertext WHERE Source ~ <Gen-Mal>}
And, for those who also want to include allusions to the Deuterocanonicals, the syntax is:
{Label Intertext WHERE Source ~ <Gen-2Mac>}
You can create all these wacky search queries by yourself just by pointing and clicking - right click on a word, select the label you're interested in in the context menu, and then choose "search this resource" or one of the other search options. It will write out the query for you.
Remember that Visual Filters are just searches. There are loads of search examples inside Logos, especially on the search panel (before you type anything in).
There are also loads of links in the Factbook, Guides, etc. that allow you to search for more information.
You can then very easily turn your searches into a visual filter:
Join https://faithlife.com/logos-visual-filters/activity to have access to many examples. You will discover that it takes familiarity with your resources to know how to build searches and familiarity with searches to know how to build visual filters.
For example for place names, I know that the Louw-Nida coding makes the proper distinction. So I open LN and find the values I am interested in, look in Help or the wiki to find how to search on LN numbers and ... I got it.
https://wiki.logos.com/Visual_Filter walks you through similar examples
