Automatic Search Highlighting - How to turn off

Whenever I do a search in Logos it highlights all the results in everything I open related to the search. That sounds great at first, like if I was searching for the word "tree". However, if I perform a dashboard search for "Jeremiah 51" to do a search, everything pertaining to the entire chapter of Jer 51 is highlighted in this annoying yellow highlight. How do I toggle this? I can't find it in settings. Please tell me this is not considered a 'feature', as this seems like something some folks wouldn't need assistance on. The results alone are good enough for me. I do not need the visual aid. In the screenshot below, I typed in "Jeremiah 51" from my Dashboard and opened a few commentaries. You can see everything is yellow, because it is all related to Jeremiah 51. This is super annoying and unnecessary. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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Graham Criddle

Search highlighting can't be turned off.

But I'm not sure how you are getting the results you are seeing

What are you entering where on the dashboard - and what are you trying to achieve doing so?

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Graham Criddle

Search highlighting can't be turned off.

But I'm not sure how you are getting the results you are seeing

What are you entering where on the dashboard - and what are you trying to achieve doing so?

Robert Edwards

From the dashboard, I am simply typing 'Jeremiah 51" in the search bar and clicking "Search All" to the right of it. That's it. My intent is to pull up any resource that mentions Jer 51 or has an association with it, and to let me dig into any and all material for my own exegetical studies. I like to let the commentaries speak for themselves without too much 'guidance' from the software, like I used to do in the seminary library with real books back in the day.
In the results that search provides, I'll click something under 'Factbook' that I think is the best starting point, and dig down into the resources from there. I think the issue is, the highlighting shows it's 'downside' (my opinion only) if you search for entire chapters or sections of biblical text, instead of just a subject matter or word.
I didn't show other screenshots, but no matter which commentary I click on in the left window pane of my example, large swaths of text is highlighted in yellow like the first example. Every single tab. It's a bit much. While I'm sure the intent of auto-highlighting wasn't meant in this manner, it is a drawback. Understanding it may be more difficult to 'only highlight smaller topical or word searches, I was only hoping for a toggle alternative for all auto-highlighting. I don't recall much older versions of Logos auto-highlighting large portions, but I could be wrong.

Graham Criddle

I think there's something else going on here.

From the dashboard, I am simply typing 'Jeremiah 51" in the search bar and clicking "Search All" to the right of it.

This results in an All Search with the search string "Jeremiah 51"

When I do the same I don't see the highlighting you are referring to

Whereas if I prefix the search string with the term bible: (to indicate I'm searching specifically for where that reference occurs in a book, I do get what you are describing

Can you check what search strings you have in your currently open search panel(s)?

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

This results in an All Search with the search string "Jeremiah 51"

The OP was probably using the quotes to surround the search query, not as literal characters being entered. If you Search All for Jeremiah 51 you will reproduce the highlighting.

This is the expected behavior of running a search, though. If you want to search for "Jeremiah 51" where it's only a reference, and not a milestone, use advanced precise search syntax: reference:"Jeremiah 51"