God's Word For Windows Help

Select a topic from the following list:

What's New In Version 1.2

Searching For Verses On A Particular Topic

Searching For Verses Containing A Given Phrase

Searching For Verses Containing A Given Word Or Words

Using Wild Cards To Locate Verses

Looking Up A Verse Directly

Looking Up A Word in the Bible Dictionary

Using the Commentary

Limiting Searches to a Group of Books

Browsing Through The List Of Matching Verses

Copying Verses To Other Windows Programs

Printing Verses On The Printer

Adding Topics to the Topical Index

God's Word for Windows V1.2 is an easy to use Bible reference program that runs under Microsoft Windows* Version 3.0 and 3.1. God's Word for Windows V1.2 allows the user to locate verses in the Bible by topic, phrase**, keyword or direct reference.  Search keywords may be specified using optional wild cards and Bible may be searched by area such as Paul's Letters, or the Pentateuch. God's Word For Windows V1.2 also has enhanced copy, append and print functions. The user is able to copy, append and print single verses, an entire chapter or the entire list of verses found in a search. God's Word for Windows V1.2 also allows the user to add his or her own topics to the 270 topic topical index.

The base module of God's Word for Windows V1.2 contains the complete Authorized Version, Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary** and Easton's Bible Dictionary**. The Darby**, Young's Literal Translation** and Weymouth's New Testament in Modern English** are also available for purchase or by download from the God's Word For Windows customer support BBS at 604-474-1664.

* 	Microsoft and Windows are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation.

** 	New for version 1.2


What's New In Version 1.2:

A number of new features have been added to version 1.2 including:

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

A commentary published by Moody Press, 28th printing.

Eastons Bible Dictionary

These Dictionary topics are from M.G. Easton M.A., D.D., Illustrated Bible Dictionary, Third Edition, published by Thomas Nelson, 1897. Definitions are only a double click away. To use the dictionary, you need only double click the unfamiliar word within the chapter window - A great way to learn about Biblical people and places.

Young's Literal Translation (optional)

A translation from the same person who wrote Young's Concordance. This translation provides the most accurate English rendering of verb tenses.

The Darby (optional)

Considered by many as one of the most English translations available. It is very similar to the New American Standard Bible.

Weymouths New Testament in Modern Speech (optional)

A 20th century translation of the New testament from the original Greek.

Cross Referencing with different translations and commentaries

If you are looking at a passage and would like to see that same passage in another translation or that passage explained in a commentary, simply make the appropriate selection from the Version menu.

Phrase Searching

It is now possible to search for verses containing a given phrase such as Kingdom of God, Time to love.

Enlarged chapter field on higher resolution displays

Version 1.1's  text was rather small on Super-VGA displays. Version 1.2 addresses this problem by increasing the chapter view area proportional to the size of the display.  For example, resolutions of 1024X768 will have the largest viewing area while 640X480 displays will be smaller.

Word search by double shift clicking

It is now possible to search for a word by bringing up a passage, holding down a shift key and

double clicking on a word. - A great time saver for those of us that prefer not to type.


Searching for Verses On a Particular Topic:

God's Word For Windows includes a 270 topic topical index. If you wish, you may also add your own topics to it. For more information on adding your own topics, see the Help Topic Adding Topics To The Topical Index To search for verses dealing with a topic, perform the following steps:

1.	Choose the topic of interest by pulling down the Topic drop-down list box and choosing a topic from that list. For more information on Drop-down Lists see the Program Manager's help topic entitled Drop-Down List Boxes.

2.	Start the search by clicking the OK button. You may now print the matching verses on the printer or copy matching verses to the clipboard for insertion into your word processor. For more information on printing or copying to the clipboard, see the Help Topics Copying Verses To Other Windows Programsand Printing Verses On The Printer

If a dialog box appears indicating that no verses were found, try pulling down the search menu and setting the search selection to All Books.  For more information on the search menu, see the Help Topic Limiting Searches To A group of BooksExample:

1.	Pull down the Topic drop-down list box and choose the topic Predestination

2.	Click the OK button

3.	120 verses will appear in the Verses Found list box, starting with Genesis 21:12

*Note - Selecting a topic will erase words you have entered in the or by Words fields and set` verses found radio button back to the whole Bible.


Searching for verses containing a given phrase:

1.	Activate the first Phrase field by clicking on the Phrase field.

2.	Type in the phrase to search for.  Wild cards are not permitted

3.	Start the search by clicking the OK button. You may now print the matching verses on the printer or copy matching verses to the clipboard for insertion into your word processor. For more information on printing or copying to the clipboard, see the Help Topics Copying Verses To Other Windows Programs and Printing Verses On The Printer

Example:

1.	Activate the  phrase field by clicking in it with the mouse.

2.	Type in the word Kingdom of God

3.	Click the OK button.

4.	Verses will appear in the Verses Found list box, starting with Matthew 6:33.

Note: If a dialog box appears indicating that no verses were found, try some different words. You might also try pulling down the search menu and setting the search selection to All Books. For more information on the search menu, see the Help Topic Limiting Searches To A group of Books


Searching for verses containing a words or group of words:

1.	Activate the first Words field by clicking on the Words field.

2.	Type in the first word using upper or lower case letters. Wild cards may be used. For more information on wild cards, see the help topic Using Wild Cards to Locate Verses

3.	Optional - Combine the first word with the next word using And, Or, or And Not by clicking on either the And,  the Or or the And Not option buttons next to the first Words field.  And enables searches for verses containing the first word And a second word.  Or enables searches for verses containing the first word Or a second word.  And Not enables searches for verses containing the first word And Not  a second word.  For more information on option buttons, see the Program Manager's help topic entitled Option Buttons.

4.	Optional - Activate the second Words field by clicking on it.

5.	Optional - Type in the second word.

6.	Start the search by clicking the OK button. You may now print the matching verses on the printer or copy matching verses to the clipboard for insertion into your word processor. For more information on printing or copying to the clipboard, see the Help Topics Copying Verses To Other Windows Programs and Printing Verses On The Printer

7	Optional - Instead of typing in a word, simply hold down the left shift key and double click on a word in the current passage.

Example:

1.	Activate the first words field by clicking in it with the mouse.

2.	Type in the word love

3.	Click the first radio button labeled And

4.	Activate the second words field by clicking in it with the mouse.

5.	Type in the word hate

6.	Click the OK button.

7.	17 verses will appear in the Verses Found list box, starting with  2 Chronicles 19:2.

Note: If a dialog box appears indicating that no verses were found, try some different words. You might also try pulling down the search menu and setting the search selection to All Books. For more information on the search menu, see the Help Topic Limiting Searches To A group of Books


Using Wild Cards to locate a verse or verses:

Using wild cards to locate verses is useful if you do not know how spell a word or a number of variations of a word are of interest to you. For instance, if you wanted to all occurrences of Thaddaeus but could not remember if it contained one "d" or 2 "d"s you could specify thad* as your word to search for. Another example would be if you wanted all occurrences of the words pray, prayer, praying or prayed, you could specify pray* as your search word. Another example would be if you wanted to find all the "ites" in the Bible such as canaanites, hittites, ... you could specify *ites as your search word.  Special characters that are used in wild card expressions are as follows:

*	An asterisk matches any number of characters. Examples:

thad* would match Thaddaeus and cana* would match Canaan.

?	A question mark matches any one character. For example:

pray?? would match prayed and prayer.

[ ]	[ ] matches any characters between the square brackets. Examples:

[ch]*ites would match canaanites, hittites.

As you might have guessed, wild card characters may be combined to make powerful search expressions.


Looking up verses directly:

Occasionally, you know the verse you want to look up. To find it without performing a keyword or topic search, perform the following steps:

1	Pull down the Book drop-down list box  and choose a book from the list. The Book drop-down list box is the first list box to the right of the Specific Verse label.

2	Pull down the Chp drop-down list box  and choose a book from the list. The Chp drop-down list box is the second list box to the right of the Specific Verse label.

3	Pull down the Vse drop-down list box  and choose a book from the list. The Vse drop-down list box is the third list box to the right of the Specific Verse label.

4	Complete the verse lookup by clicking the OK button. The selected verse will now be displayed.

5	You may now print it or copy it to the clipboard for insertion into your word processor. For more information on printing or copying to the clipboard, see the Help Topics Copying Verses To Other Windows Programs and Printing Verses On The Printer

Example:

1.	Pull down the Book drop-down list box and choose John

2.	Pull down the Chp drop-down list box and choose 3

3.	Pull down the Vse drop-down list box and choose 16

4.	Click the OK button.

5.	1 verse will appear in the Verses Found list box, John 3:16.


Looking up words in the Bible Dictionary:

The Bible Dictionary is used to look up words that you are unfamiliar with. To use the dictionary, perform the following steps:

1	Highlight a word you wish defined.

2	Pull down the Version menu and select Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

3	The definition for that word will be displayed in a separate dialog box

4	Optional - Instead of highlighting the word and using the Version menu, you may simply "double click" the word as it appears in the chapter window

5	Optional - If you come across  a word in the dictionary definition that you wish defined, you may "double click" that word for a new definition

6	Optional - You may copy the definition to the clipboard from the dictionary by highlighting all or part of the definition using the mouse and then pressing <Ctrl > + <Ins>

Example:

1.	Activate the first words field by clicking in it with the mouse.

2.	Type the word tabernacle

3.	Click the OK button.

4.	297 verses will appear in the Verses Found list box, starting with Exodus 25:9.

5.	"Double Click" the word tabernacle as it appears in Exodus 25:9

6.	The dictionary entry for tabernacle will be displayed.

7.	Now, double click the word Moses as it appears in the dictionary. The definition for Moses will be displayed


Using the Commentary

The commentary is useful in understanding passages of scripture. In God's Word For Windows, the commentary is used almost like any other translation. You may locate commentary entries by direct reference or by topic. To use the commentary, perform the following steps

1.	Display the passage of scripture using one of the previous search methods

2.	Pull down the Version menu and select Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary.

3.	The commentary entry for that passage will be displayed

4.	To switch back to the Bible, pull down the Version menu and select Authorized Version.

Example:

1.	Pull down the book combo box and select John

2.	Pull down the chp combo box and select 3

3.	Pull down the vse combo box and select 16

4.	Click the OK button.

5.	John 3:16 will be displayed.

6.	Pull down the Version menu and select Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary.

7.	The commentary entry for John chapter 3 will be displayed.

8.	Switch back to the Authorized Version by pulling down the Version menu and selecting Authorized Version.


Limiting a search to a group of books

Sometimes the number of verses that a word appears in is too large to be of use. For example, if you searched for all occurrences of God, you would find that there are 3892 occurrences of God throughout the Bible. One way to trim this number down to a more manageable size is to limit the books that are searched. Perhaps you are only interested in the occurrences of God in the Paul's Letters. By searching only Paul's Letters for God, the number of verses that match would be 495. To limit the number of books searched, perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the search menu and choose the area to limit your search to from the menu.

2.	Perform your topic or word search as described above.

Example:

1.	Pull down the Search menu and choose Pentateuch

2.	Activate the first words field by clicking on it with the mouse and type creat*

3.	Click the OK button

4.	17 verses will appear in the Verses Found list box starting with Genesis 1:1

Note: If you are unhappy with the predefined selections on the search menu, or if you are only interested in a single book, you may choose specific books to search by choosing the specific books menu item from the search menu.


Refining Searches

After finding a group of verses of interest, perhaps by using a topic search, you might want to limit your search to the resulting list of verses. For example, you might want to find the list of verses containing the word light that also is on the subject of angels. To accomplish this, perform the following steps.

1.	Perform a topic or word search as described above.

2.	Click the radio button labeled Verses Found

3.	Perform a word search as described above.

Example:

1.	Select Angels from the Topic drop-down list box.

2.	Click the OK button

3.	Click the "Verses Found" radio button

4.	Type light into the first field of the Words edit box.

5.	Click the OK button.


Browsing through the list of matching verses

Often, you will need to look at a number of verses to find the right one. You can do this by browsing through the Verses Found list box. To do this, perform the following steps:

1.	After following one of the previous search procedures, the number of matching verses will be displayed next to the Verses Found field and the list of matching references will be displayed in the box underneath the same field.  If no verses match, No References Found will be displayed.

2.	Activate the Verses Found list box by clicking anywhere in the Verses Found box.

3.	Choose verses to peruse by highlighting references in this list box .  The corresponding verse will be displayed in the Verse box.  For more information on List Boxes, see the Program Manager help topic entitled List Boxes.


Copying a verse or verses to other Windows programs

Often you will want to copy verses from God's Word For Windows into your word processor or other Windows programs. This saves you time because you will not have to retype them. To copy verses to accomplish this, perform the following steps:

1.	Perform a search using any of the previous procedures.

2.	Pull down the Edit menu and choose Copy.

3.	A dialog box will appear asking you what you would like to copy. You may choose the verse that is selected, the entire chapter currently displayed or all the verses appearing in the Verses Found list box. Make you selection by clicking on one of the radio buttons and then click the OK button.

4.	Change to your other Windows application, pull down it's Edit menu and select Paste. The verses you selected will be now be inserted.

5.	Optional - If you wish to include the special highlight characters in the verses you are copying, you may uncheck the Remove { } checkbox.

6.	Optional - If you have previously copied some verses to the clipboard, you may want to add to it. To do this, choose Append instead of Copy from the edit menu and follow the same procedure described above. Append is a good way of accumulating a number of verses into clipboard before printing them or pasting them into another application.

Example:

1.	Pull down the Topics drop-down list box and choose Baptism

2.	Click the OK button. 68 verses will appear in the Verses Found list box

3.	Pull down the Edit menu and choose Copy

4.	Click the Verses Found radio button in the resulting dialog box.

5.	Click the OK button in the same dialog box.

6.	Change to your word processor.

7.	Pull down it's Edit menu and choose Paste.

8.	The 68 verses will now be pasted into your word processor.


Printing a verse or verses on the printer

Often you will want a print out of the verses you have found. To do this, perform the following steps:

1.	Perform a search using any of the previous procedures.

2.	Pull down the File menu list box and choose Print.

3.	A dialog box will appear asking you what you would like to print. You may choose the verse that is selected, the entire chapter currently displayed, all the verses appearing in the Verses Found list box or verses you have copied to the clipboard.

4.	Make your selection by clicking on one of the radio buttons in the same dialog box and then click the OK button.

5.	Optional - If you wish to include the special highlight characters in the verses you are printing, you may uncheck the Remove { } checkbox. This may be useful to when remembering which words you were searching for.

Example:

1.	Activate the first words field by clicking in it with the mouse.

2.	Type in the word war

3.	Click the first radio button labeled And

4.	Activate the second words field by clicking in it with the mouse.

5.	Type in the word peace

6.	Click the OK button.

7.	Pull down the Edit menu and choose Print

8.	Click the Chapter radio button in the resulting dialog box.

9.	Click the OK button in the same dialog box.

10.	Deuteronomy chapter 20 should now be printed on your printer.

Note: God's Word For Windows uses the Default printer selected from the Printer section of the Windows Control Panel. If God's Word For Windows fails to print, it may be that you have not set up a default printer.


Adding topics to the topical index

Even though there are 270 topics in God's Word For Windows topical index there are times when you may wish to add you own topics to the topical index or add verses to topics existing in the topical index. Perhaps you are working on a sermon on children in marriage and would like to remember the references you used. A good way to do that would be to add a topic Children in Marriage and add all your verses to that topic.

To add a topic to the topical index, perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the Topics menu and choose Insert Topic. Be sure not to get confused with the Topic drop-down list box in the search section.

2.	Type in the name of the topic you are adding and then press the OK button.

To delete a topic from the topical index, perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the Topics menu and choose Delete Topic.

2.	Type in the name of the topic you are deleting and then press the OK button.

3.	A message box will appear asking you if you are sure you want to delete this topic. Click the Yes button if that is what you want to do.

To rename a topic in the topical index, perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the Topics menu and choose Rename Topic.

2.	Choose the topic you wish to rename from the Old Name drop-down list box.

3.	Type in the new name of the topic in the New Name field

4.	Click the OK button.

To add verses to a topic in the topical index, perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the Topics menu and choose Insert Verse.

2.	Pull down the Topic drop-down list box in the resulting dialog box and choose the topic you want to add the verse to.

3.	Specify the verse you want to include with this topic using the drop-down list boxes next to the Reference label. These list boxes operate the same way as they did when you were Looking Up A Verse Directly.

4.	Click the OK button. A Message box will appear indicating that the verse was added to the specified topic. You may add as many verses as you would like to this topic.

5.	When you are done adding verses, click the Cancel button.

6.	The next time you search for this topic, all the verses you specified will be included with the resulting verse list.

To delete verses from a topic perform the following steps:

1.	Pull down the Topics menu and choose Delete Verse.

2.	Pull down the Topic drop-down list box in the resulting dialog box and choose the topic you want to delete the verse from.

3.	Pull down the Verse drop-down list box and choose the verse you want to delete.

4.	Click the OK button.

5.	You may delete as many verses as you would like from this topic. When you are done click the Cancel button.

Notes For Network Managers:

1.	If God's Word for Windows is installed on a network and the user does not have write privileges in the directory where the user topic files are installed, the items on topics menu will appear grayed out.

2.	If the network manager would like to provide additional topics for his or her users but would not like to allow the user to update them, he or she can add the topics from an account with write privileges and assign read only privileges to the users. The users will now be able to search for those topics but will not be able to modify them.

3.	If the Network manager would like to install God's Word for Windows on a network and allow each individual user his or her own personal topic file, the manager should set the GW4WIN environment variable in each users AUTOEXEC.BAT file to point to a directory on the users hard disk drive. God's Word For Windows will then use the topics files in that directory.

Example:

1.	Edit the user's AUTOEXEC.BAT files using the DOS editor

2.	Add the line SET GW4WIN=C:\MYTOPICS

3.	Restart the computer.