Highlighting Personal Books

I have loved the new PBB. You have done a great job and it is a wonderful tool. Thank you.

My personal commentary and teaching materials are a work in progress with new information being added as things are shared and others add new perspectives or I see new insights. They grow as I grow. I would like to mark & highlight them as I do the Logos Bible with significant themes or special words. However, if I make changes to the word.docx then I loose all the Logos highlighting, etc... because they are not a part of the docx document. I would like to know more about the "add a file" feature. If I break down the books of the Bible into chapters and added each one as a file, would only the chapter that was changed be rebuilt and need to have the highlighting re-added? Would the rest of the files stay intact and the highlighting remain?

Thank you for your help.

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Dave Hooton

Split the content into files by chapter or book but be consistent with your formatting e.g. each book/chapter has the same Word Heading number in each file, and place the files in correct (canonical) order.

I think the highlighting would still be affected as the resource would be rebuilt using all the files. Experiment with two small files in a Book.

Christine Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/277282#Comment_277282

Thank you Dave, I'll give it a try.

JT (alabama24)

if I make changes to the word.docx then I loose all the Logos highlighting, etc... because they are not a part of the docx document.

I know this to not necessarily be true. I have highlighted a PB, edited the .docx, and the compiled book adjusted for the changes. In my case, I highlighted a section of unformatted text in a compiled PB. Then I adjusted the .docx by adding in paragraph breaks and spacing. After re-compiling, the highlights remained.

Christine Francis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/277285#Comment_277285

I have been playing with it. I believe you are right.

I think what I might have been doing wrong was deleting the file in Logos and then re-adding it. after I had made changes and saved it in docx. The file name was the same, but the deleting in Logos would have erased everything. Now I am not deleting it in Logos but just adding the file again and letting it rebuild. The highlighting has been retained! I did what you said and added the new information as a separate paragraph. I will see what happens if I add a new sentence within a paragraph where I have highlighting. Thank you so much! How I appreciate your taking the time to help.

(I also discovered I need to shut my Bible down in order for it not to send the message that rebuild failed.)

JT (alabama24)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/277293#Comment_277293

Glad to hear things are working better for you!