Find all highlights with a given milestone?

Can someone please tell me how to search my library for all highlights within a given milestone? For example, if I have used the yellow highlighter under Solid Colors to make highlights in multiple commentaries for John 3:16, how can I view JUST those highlights without having to (1) open each commentary individually or (2) sifting through highlights of the same color/style in other passages or resources? Thanks in advance for any help you can offer me!

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Graham Criddle

For example, if I have used the yellow highlighter under Solid Colors to make highlights in multiple commentaries for John 3:16, how can I view JUST those highlights

Try:

{Highlight Yellow Highlighter} AND {Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695119#Comment_695119

{Highlight Yellow Highlighter} AND {Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}

Better to use WITHIN, rather than AND. AND will just show results in the same article. You'll need this, however:

({Highlight Yellow Highlighter} AND {Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}) OR ({Milestone <Bible John 3:16>} WITHIN {Highlight Yellow Highlighter})

Matthew

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695142#Comment_695142

Graham and Mark,

Thank you both for your responses! I have copied and pasted both of your suggested searches, but each of those searches is pulling up zero results. I am running Logos 6 on Windows 7 and using the "Basic" search, telling Logos to search "All Text" in "All Resources." There is probably something simple I am doing wrong, but I have not yet figured out what it is. I have also tried selecting "Solid Colors" and then "Yellow" instead of "All Text," but I am getting the same result. I have verified that the highlights I am trying to search for were in fact done using "Solid Colors," as I can open the "Solid Colors" note file and view them.

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695143#Comment_695143

You probably need {Highlight Yellow} instead of {Highlight Yellow Highlighter} - that's the normal name for that highlight colour, anyway.

Matthew

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695150#Comment_695150

OK, finally got it! The winning search was:

{Highlight Yellow}) WITHIN ({Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}

Mark, your tweak on searching the highlighting worked, but I had to place it before "WITHIN" rather than after and then move the milestone to the end of the search. Thank you again to both Mark and Graham. I really appreciate the help!

Mark Barnes

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695167#Comment_695167

OK, finally got it! The winning search was:

{Highlight Yellow}) WITHIN ({Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}

I've done a bit more experimentation on this. The WITHIN keyword only works when the first search parameter is wholly contained within the second. If you'd highlighted John 3:15-17, the search you described wouldn't find the result.

If you want to find all instances of Highlighting in John 3:16, even highlights that expands before/after the verse, or partial highlighting, then it seems that the best search is actually:

{Highlight Yellow} WITHIN 0 WORDS {Milestone <Bible John 3:16>}

Matthew

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/695196#Comment_695196

Good to know. Thanks!