Layout Changes When I Use Command Box

John Crowder
John Crowder Member Posts: 2
edited November 21 in English Forum

I can get started with the layout I want, but when I type a passage into the command box, it reverts to an old layout I don't want to use anymore. Is there a default setting for the layout that is used when a passage is typed into the command box? If so, is there a way to change that default layout?

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  • Wolfgang Schneider
    Wolfgang Schneider Member Posts: 676 ✭✭

    What do you actually enter in the command box when you say "type a passage"?  What do you mean with "reverts to an old layout"?  Do you wait with pressing "Enter" until the command box's drop down suggestion list is complete? It could be that you press "Enter" while the highlighted choice of command in the drop down list is actually on a command you do not mean to execute ...

    Wolfgang Schneider

    (BibelCenter)

  • Jack Caviness
    Jack Caviness MVP Posts: 13,488

    Don't enter the Scripture address in the Go box—Use the Locator Bar. Show Locator Bar is contained in the panel menu (the three dots at the right top of the panel.

  • DMB
    DMB Member Posts: 3,087

    Interesting point, Jack.  

    I agree, but the display sure looks like the top one is the correct one.  I've made the same error and my big layout disappeared. Smiling.

  • John Crowder
    John Crowder Member Posts: 2

    Thank you Jack. That makes sense. I'm still confused about which layout comes up when I type the passage in the Go Box, but it doesn't really matter. You helped solve the real issue. Thanks.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,121

    but the display sure looks like the top one is the correct one.

    True, but the top one only shows when you have explicitly asked for it. Normally it is hidden when the toolbar is on the left.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭

    where are you guys finding this "Locator Bar"?  Is it an L9 thing and not L10?

    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!

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 53,121

    The locator bar is available in every resource panel and has been since L4 IIRC. As Jack said, you can turn it on and off from the resource panel menu.

    Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."

  • xnman
    xnman Member Posts: 2,780 ✭✭✭

    The locator bar is available in every resource panel and has been since L4 IIRC. As Jack said, you can turn it on and off from the resource panel menu.

    Thanks....  Never used it until now.... thanks again!

    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!

  • Dave Hooton
    Dave Hooton MVP Posts: 35,677

    Is there a default setting for the layout that is used when a passage is typed into the command box? If so, is there a way to change that default layout?

    If you type a passage one of the options is :-

    Layout

    Open Passage Study Layout to John 3:16.

    If you select that it will open the passage in  Layouts > Home Page Layouts > Passage Study.

    If you change that layout you can save it by right-clicking Passage Study (in Layouts > Home Page Layout) and selecting "Replace with current layout" This will avoid reverting to the old layout.

    Dave
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