Fifth Function: Browse Window cont.

It has been quite some time since I have done this (almost two weeks) so I guess it would be wise for me to finally continue on with the browse window. We left off with the dropdown options at the head of the browse window. Continuing on I will move on to the actual text section of the browse window. This is where you find the actual text that you are looking at, there are two separate ways to view the text, you can do it in single version mode which will allow you to look at one single version of the text such as NIV, ESV…etc. This is nice to look at a complete text without any break, which is helpful when trying to look at the context of a particular verse. This can also be done in the Analysis window, but we will get to that later. You can toggle back and forth with this by placing your curser in the browse window and typing “b” the version that it will display in the single version will be the same as your primary search version. This can also be accomplished by clicking on the button that looks slightly like two footprints that is located on the top of the browse window.

On this window you can also change your scroll mode. This can be done by hitting control + Shift + the up arrow key. There are three choices, you can just keep it on default, or you can make it where your arrow keys move it from one verse to another. The other option of this is to synch it up, that is make it to where if you move up in down with the verses that it moves in that direction in all browse windows that are open. Again I would say that this later option is very helpful if you have multiple monitors. And with that, multiple browse windows open. Now, with me, I usually have one browse window up with the multiple version up and then I have another with the context browse function open.

While reading the help file the next thing it mentions is the options that are available when you right click on a word or phrase in the browse window. Now there a lot of options available to you with this, as I have said many times with other options is that the bulk majority of these options will be talked about in other blogs. However one that I will talk about shortly is the options that deal with the clipboard. If you select a phrase or word or whatever you can right click and copy this, but the copy button gives several options from copying it to the clipboard to placing it on the CL, after you copy once, it will give you option to repeat last copy command.

The two last features that can be talked about is the Greek Alias Files and the ELM or the External Links Manager. The Greek Alias file is basically a file that contains various spellings of the same word, it is possible to change these or add a version but I (me) would be hesitant to do this for fear of messing it up. This doesn’t mean it is a bad feature actually it is a good one and is a great that BBW has given us the ability to do this. The next feature the ELM is something that will be talked about in our next blog.