How to turn off the highlighting of text in one Bible being transferred to all other Bibles

When I highlight verses in my preferred Bible I noticed that the same verse is highlighted in all other translations. How do I turn this feature off.

I prefer to start afresh when I read other translations.

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Jack Caviness

Do you mean that text is selected or that it is highlighted with the Highlighter Tool? If you mean the Highlighter tool, you will need to apply the highlight to selection rather than reference.

For text selection: For the texts with the unwanted highlight, on the Dynamic Toolbar under Emphasize, make sure that Text Selection is unchecked.

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Hope this helps.

Theophan Dort

@Norm Hart I think what you mean is highlighting "corresponding text" from other Bibles. If you highlight in one Bible, you have the option in all other Bibles to see the "corresponding text" highlighted in them, too, without having to re-highlight it. This option can be enabled or disabled in each Bible.

So open your preferred Bible and highlight a verse or passage, or go to a place you've already highlighted.
Open up another Bible in another Logos window to the same verse or passage. If you see that same "corresponding" text highlighted in the second Bible, you can change that as follows:
In that second Bible, go to the "Notes" tab in that window,
Then click on "Show Notes and Highlights"
Then you can scroll down to find and enable or disable "From other books with corresponding text."

If you disable that category, you won't see highlights from other books (like from your Preferred Bible). It y gives you additional options if you want them, like seeing corresponding highlights in some notebooks but not others, etc.. But if you turn of this entire category, you shouldn't see corresponding text highlights from any book other than this one (in this specific case, the "second" Bible, not your Preferred Bible.)

You may have to turn this off in each of the other Bibles you see these corresponding highlights in.