Morris Proctor's Tips & Tricks

As you probably know, the Passage Guide is like a Super Wal-Mart. It's one-stop shopping, supplying you with most everything you need to study a biblical passage. You can also transform the Passage Guide into the ultimate Reference Browser or Scripture Index. You're going to love this. I guarantee it!

• Create numerous search collections by choosing Tools | Define Collections (Create collections around subject matter, like My Theology Books, and also authors like My AW Tozer Books)
• Open the Passage Guide at Tools | Bible Study | Passage Guide
• On the Passage Guide Toolbar click Properties
• In the Properties section select the box Collections
• In the Collections area select the specific Collections you want the Passage Guide to search
• Click OK

Now generate a Passage Guide report and notice the results. It lists your collections individually and the search hits in each book!

Pretty cool!

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Do you notice that when you generate a Bible Word Study report for a Hebrew or Greek word that the report takes a few moments to complete. The report is not slow; it's just doing so much work. Here's a way to speed of the report:

• Generate a report for a Hebrew or Greek word by right clicking on a word in the ESV Reverse Interlinear and selecting Bible Word Study "for your word"
• After the report is complete click the minus sign ( - ) next to each section of the report except KeyLinks and Translation.

You have just paused the searching in all areas except KeyLinks and Translation.

The next time you generate a report these are the only two areas that automatically generate. If you need another section just click the plus sign ( + ) next to the section title.

This little trick greatly speeds up the process.

By the way the KeyLinks section gives you the definition of the word and the Translation section supplies you with the occurrences of the word and how it's translated in the ESV.

This is one of my favorite Libronix features!

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Logos Bible Software for Mac is off to a great start. I am getting a lot of e-mail regarding training materials for the Mac. Please visit www.mpseminars.com often because we'll be releasing new materials very soon.

Also, I am getting a lot of questions about whether Mac users should attend Camp Logos. We have prepared a special page to answer that question.

If you're a Mac user, though, here are a couple of tips that hopefully will come in handy:

• When you're working in a resource window (Bible, commentary, dictionary, etc.) press the keystroke shortcut Command + Tab to select the current location box. Now just type your new reference. This just saves you from having to click the mouse in the box every time you want to jump to a new location.
• While you're working in your Bible software choose Libronix DLS | Preferences | Appearance to customize your system.

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March Madness 2009 is now history and the Complete Works of Francis Shaeffer emerged as championed. Now that you perhaps own this, resource what is the best way to mine its riches? To get you started I have created a search collection for you that you can download for free at www.mpseminars.com.

You can now search this collection by word or phrase or use the Reference Browser to locate Bible verses.

I suggest, however, you use the Basic Search dialog and conduct a "proximity search." Here's how it works. Based on John 13.35 Schaeffer often spoke of love being the "mark of a Christian." You of course could search for the phrase "mark of a Christian" but he may have written something like, "A Christian should bear the mark of love." He's discussing the same subject just using a different phrase. The proximity search solves the challenge.

• Choose Search | Basic Search
• In the In box, select your new Schaffer search collection that you have download from mpseminars.com
• Type this in the search box: love within 7 words mark

This will locate every time the words love and mark occur within seven words of each other regardless of the exact phrasing.

Try the same search with this search string: truth within 8 words total

Enjoy this incredible resource!

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