Tip of the Month: Searching Tips
Book of the Month: All the Questions in the Bible
Mac Tip of the Month: Keystrokes for Setting and Opening Bookmarks
Product of the Month: Camp Logos 2 DVD-- Now 35% Off
Camp Logos DVD's: Copying Camp DVD's to a Hard Drive, Creating Playlists
etc. Newsletter: Submit Your Topics
Camp Logos: Schedule

Tip of the Month: Searching Tips

Over the past several weeks I have received several e-mails inquiring about specific types of searches. I thought you would enjoy the questions and answers.

When I do a search for a word like: "decenter", I get a whole list of findings including "decent". How do I get only the one word I ask for like "decenter"?

When we search for a word and get all forms of the word, that feature is called "stemming". For example, a search for faith will return hits for faithful, faithfulness, etc. To locate just a specific word, we have to use a nostem search. Type this in the Search box and you'll find just your word:

nostem(decenter)

nostem(faith)

I am having difficulties searching my set of theological journals. The results are too many or absolutely none. I would like to just search Romans 5:18, how can I do that?

The Basic Search dialog allows us to search for a specific reference in any resource or collection of resources.

Open the Basic Search from the Search menu

Set the In box to your journals (or any collection)

Type this in the Search box: Bible = "Romans 5:18"

Click Search

Is there a way to make a search case sensitive? For example, I want to search for the word "lord" when it refers to someone in charge rather than "Lord" referring, of course, to God.

By default, Libronix searches are not case sensitive, but you can easily make any search case sensitive by typing this in the Search box of either the Bible or Basic Search:

case(lord)

This will locate lord, but not Lord.

Book of the Month: All the Questions in the Bible

Occasionally I'm asked if there's a way to search for all the questions in a book of the Bible. Currently, I don't know of a way (if you do, please share that with me). Logos does have a resource, however, that does the work for us. It's appropriately named, All the Questions in the Bible . The author divides his book into chapters, with each chapter corresponding to a book in the Bible. He then lists all of the questions in that book, based on the KJV. This resource is located in most of the Logos base collections.

The verses in the book can easily be extracted and placed in a Verse List for future reference:

Open All the Questions in the Bible from My Library

Display the Table of Contents for the book by clicking the Toggle Contents Pane icon located on its toolbar

Click a book of the Bible in the contents pane to jump to that location

Select (highlight) all of the text for that Bible book

Right click on the selection

Select Auto-Lookup from the right menu

In the Auto-Lookup window click Export Results to Verse List to transfer all of those verses to the document

When you close the Verse List, you'll be prompted to save and name the document. In the future, you can open the verse list at File > Open.

>>Play the video of the month for etc: Questions in Ezra Verse List

Mac Tip of the Month: Keystrokes for Setting and Opening Bookmarks

You can set and open bookmarks for any resource or report in your Logos Bible Software for Mac using shortcut keystrokes

To Set a Bookmark:

Open the desired resource or report
Press Command + Control + a number 1-9

To Open a Bookmark:

Press Command + a number 1-9

***Also, if you are planning on installing the Snow Leopard Operating System for Mac, you will need to install the Logos Bible Software for Mac 1.2.1 update. More information can be found here.

Product of the Month: Camp Logos 2 DVD - Now 35% OFF

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Copying Camp Logos DVD's to a Hard Drive and Creating Playlists

Customers have been asking how to copy Camp Logos DVD's to their Hard Drive. This eliminates the need to carry around multiple DVD's and it provides a way for the videos to be viewed Full Screen with QuickTime. We have created instructions for such a procedure and we also have provided instructions on how to create a playlist of your favorite video sections with iTunes.

>>Copy Camp Logos 1 LIVE DVD's to a Hard Drive
>>Copy Camp Logos 2 LIVE DVD's to a Hard Drive
>>Creating a Playlist for Videos Using iTunes

etc. Newsletter: Submit Your Topics

On our website is a place for you to submit questions or topics to be addressed in the newsletter. Please take advantage of this. I like for these monthly tips to be as practical as possible. PLEASE BE SURE TO INCLUDE YOUR E-MAIL ADDRESS with the questions so I can contact you if I need clarification with your question.

Camp Logos Schedule

Here is a list of upcoming Camp Logos. Please periodically check our website www.mpseminars.com as we continuously add new dates. For your convenience you may register online.

2009 DATES

September 23-24 | Houston, TX*
*Inductive Bible Study Seminar
December 1-2 | Nashville, TN area

>>>Complete Schedule