Footnoting in Sermon Builder

I have recently begun attempting to craft my sermon in Sermon Builder (SB). Currently, if you preach from a standard outline (i.e., with Roman Numerals and Sub points as A,B,C, etc), then SB is very clunky. I've never been one to preach from a full-text manuscript. Just not my style of exposition delivery. I have developed some work arounds in my effort to try and use SB.
However, the BIG problem for me is the lack of footnoting in SB. When I use Word for my sermons, I can copy and paste from a Logos resource, and it properly footnotes it in my Word document. WHY DOES IT NOT DO THAT IN SB? That makes no sense to me.
Footnote citations are critical to content integrity. I do not quote or use anything that I cannot properly source with a citation.
Am I just missing a particular setting? Does Logos footnote in its Sermon Builder?
Thanks for any input.
Marty O. Wynn
Columbus, GA
Logos 10 Platinum
Macbook Pro M1
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There are two ways to paste copied text from a Resource.
- Just Paste it, this will not include bibliographic info.
- Type a space then paste. This will include bibliographic info.
Hope this help, not perfect though.
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Thanks for the tip, but it did not work for me in Sermon Builder. It will copy & paste the resource text, but no footnote or bibliographical material.
It is really strange that copying and pasting from Logos into Microsoft Word does it perfectly, but not into Logos own Sermon Builder.
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I commented in the link MJ provided (thanks!) - I would like a full-on footnoting capability, not just Logos sources copied over.
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Pastor Wynn said:
However, the BIG problem for me is the lack of footnoting in SB. When I use Word for my sermons, I can copy and paste from a Logos resource, and it properly footnotes it in my Word document. WHY DOES IT NOT DO THAT IN SB? That makes no sense to me.
Footnote citations are critical to content integrity. I do not quote or use anything that I cannot properly source with a citation.
I'm with you on this one. This fact of not having citations in SB has caused me to back off using SB. Good writing skills demand that you note where you got the quote or story or such so that you can go back to it. To me it just seems ethical to give credit to the person you are quoting and cititions are a way of doing that in written work. Hopefully Logos will add this capability to SB sooooon. [8-|]
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Pastor Wynn said:
However, the BIG problem for me is the lack of footnoting in SB.
I think the difference is that WORD is a full word PROCESSOR and Sermon Builder formats is closer to "Notepad" as a utility.
My workaround (may not work for you) is to write my sermon in Word, [I convert footnotes to ENDnotes] then copy paste from WORD into SB so that my archive copy has citations if I ever want to go back to verify what I was quoting.
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David Thomas said:Pastor Wynn said:
However, the BIG problem for me is the lack of footnoting in SB.
I think the difference is that WORD is a full word PROCESSOR and Sermon Builder formats is closer to "Notepad" as a utility.
My workaround (may not work for you) is to write my sermon in Word, [I convert footnotes to ENDnotes] then copy paste from WORD into SB so that my archive copy has citations if I ever want to go back to verify what I was quoting.
I think you are right. And I worked through your work around and it works.... but it's one of those "make extra work" to do the thing.
xn = Christan man=man -- Acts 11:26 "....and the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch".
Barney Fife is my hero! He only uses an abacus with 14 rows!
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