Second Function: Search Window

Following literally down the line of help contents there are several overview sections, a section on the main menu, and the button bar. Most of these are fairly generic and don't truly get us into the functionality of the software. After this we get to the first of three points in the content section, the three go through the three windows and in many ways are just to give you a general introduction as to what the parts of each window do. The first of these is the search window, which is what I will be talking about today. Now again I emphasize that this is just a general summary of the basic functions of the search window and as we continue on we will discover more of the specific functions that this window in particular can do. We need to keep this in mind, because the primary function of BW is to act a a search engine.

When we first look at the search window we immediately see something that is familiar to us, well at least to me, the command line. Below this is the results verse list box, this is what shows the results of a command line (abbreviated CL) search. Looking at the CL we see an arrow box to the right side of it, if we click this arrow we get a drop down of every successful search ever done in the CL, as I press it down I am depressed to find that even though I have had this program for some time, I have done a minimal amount of CL searches.

Directly below the CL there are three light green boxes. The first should have five darker green boxes and a three letter abbreviation of a particular version are text (i.e. NIV, ESV...etc.). If you click on this you get a drop down list of several different functions that you can do with the command line. These functions include setting the text that you wish to search, setting the display versions that will display the particular text. Choosing the search limits. Editing a search and display favorites and finally synchronizing the results list. If you change the search limits depending on how you change them the one or many of the five green boxes may turn yellow.

§ First box: This is yellow if you have any search limits set.

§ Second box: This is yellow if you have any cross version search options set.

§ Third box: This is yellow if accent-sensitive searching is on for the current search version or if "smart apostrophes" is turned on for English versions.

§ Fourth box: This is yellow if you are using a Hebrew version and Hebrew vowel-sensitive searching is on.

§ Fifth box: This is yellow if Command Line checkbox filter searching is on.

To be honest, I do not yet know what each of these are, but hopefully as I move along I will discover more about how to effectively use them.

Looking again to the green CK verson button, we see the three letter abbreviation. If we run a search with one version and then change to a different version, we could see two versions displayed at the same time seperated b a backslash. the one that comes first is the newest one, so that if we did a new search it would be in that version.

To change the search version you again click it to drop down and then click on change search version, from there a new box will appear with all the versions contained in BW sep-erated by language.

The default mode of search only searches the current search version, however it is possible to search all the display versions or simply all the display version of the same language (i.e. Greek, Hebrew, English), this feature is new to me not knowing I could do this. When I changed it over the second light turned orange which is an indication that I have changed it from the default. When I performed the search a small box popped up showing the cross version results, what is displayed in the search window is the main one but can be changed simply by selecting a different version from the box. a good way to search multiple versions at once, certainly a helpful tool. If you select the "Search and Display all same language versions" it will search not simply your displayed versions but all versions of that language, so for instance you remember a certain wording of a text but cannot remember which one, you would click on this one and BW would search for that wording in all versions that are English, it also changes the display window so that you can see all these different versions there. and finally the "Search and Prune all same language versions" works almost exactly like the last one, but if a version has no hits it is pruned from the list.

The next on the list that drops down is the options to choose display versions. This is simple as just like the search versions, a box appears with all BW versions displayed, you can choose multiple and I usually have at least two English, a Greek and Hebrew version displayed at all times on mine. After this is the choosing of the search limits, if you open this a box will appear with several options so that for instance you could decide to search only one book, or only the New Testament, therefore limiting your searches. There are more options with this, but we will cover them when we get to point 50 of the content section which deals with setup options.

After this we see on the drop down list a section for "edit search and display favorites." this allows you to pick favorites that that you can quickly return to them when needed, this will also be covered in more detail in the setup options.

And finally, last but not least comes the drop down on "synchronize results list" this is for a change in the searches, like we said earlier, if you do a search and then change your search version it will be displayed by one version/original version. When this occurs you can use this tool to pull all the search results to the most current search version.

and That is all for me today. I will try to go through The common Search Utilities Button in the near future.