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Tips, Hints and How-To's
The Cross Reference window lets you see what other books have to say about the verse you are reading in the Bible.
Use book abbreviations when you are typing a Scripture reference in order to move around in a Bible. For example, you can type in Jn for John, or Mk for Mark.
Commentaries explain and interpret the Bible. They range in size from a single volume covering the whole Bible to a volume for each book in the Bible. Commentaries are organized like Bibles, having the same book/chapter/verse structure.
“Drill down” into the largest topics by using the Topic window to display topical resources.
Create a customized calendar that will enable you to read through the Bible at your own pace – and track your progress -- with Bible Reading Planner.
Bible Navigator’s word processor allows you to create your own documents which have the same powerful abilities as the rest of your Bible Navigator library and are fully cross-referenced to the Bible.
Record your personal comments and observations by using the Personal Notes box.
Mark portions of books that you'd like to be able to return to at a later time by using Bookmarks.
Bookmarks can also be pasted into your notes, documents, or discussion group messages as hyperlinks.
The first time you start Bible Navigator you will automatically have a Desktop created called "My Desktop".
A Desktop is like having a separate copy of Bible Navigator all to yourself. It keeps track of highlighting, personal notes, open books, and preferences.
Desktops are a great tool to use for multiple family members. Each person can have separate preferences and active study sessions. Or a single user could use Desktops to separate different types of studies.
Bible Navigator automatically updates your Desktop as you use the program, so you don't have to remember to save your changes before exiting. You can even leave windows open when you exit, and they will be restored them the next time you run Bible Navigator.
Discussion Groups act like a bulletin board. You create a message the same way you would create an email, but intead of sending it to an individual you "post" it to a particular Discussion Group. Any other Bible Navigator user can then read and reply to your message.
Discussion Groups exist for a wide variety of topics, and more are added over time as a result of requests from Bible Navigator users.
The Bible Navigator Community Library is a collection of documents written by other Bible Navigator users. Browse and download any article in the Community Library and it becomes a part of your Bible Navigator library. Likewise, you can publish any document you write.
Your Bible Navigator software is capable of keeping itself up to date. All you need is a connection to the Internet.
Change how often Bible Navigator performs a SmartUpdate via the Internet Settings tab of the Program Settings window.
To manually perform a SmartUpdate, click the Help menu and select Check For Updates.
Browse the list of add-on books by clicking the View menu and selecting Add-on Books. Click on a book category to see the list of books in that category.
Periodically new books are announced, and some books go on sale. To make sure you have the latest list of add-ons and the latest sale prices, click on the Help menu, and select "Check for updates".
Searches
To search for verses containing all of the search terms, separate the terms with AND.
Example: Jesus and Mary
To search for verses that contain any of the search terms, separate the terms with OR.
Example: Jesus or Mary
To search for words or phrases that appear within a certain number of verses (in a Bible) or paragraphs (in non-Bibles) of each other, separate them with the word NEAR.
Example: Jesus near Mary.
The active verse for the Bible window is shown by the hand pointer icon. The active verse controls the cross references and notes shown in the Bible window, and drives synchronization with other Bibles and commentaries.
Clicking on verse text with your mouse will make that verse the active verse. You can also use the Up and Down arrow keys on your keyboard to move the active verse a verse at a time.
A powerful technique for having multiple windows open at the same time, yet maintaining maximum room to read text, is to "dock" multiple windows.
Opening the Library Window
The Library Window is used to open any book or document in your Bible Navigator library. Open it by clicking the Library button, or by clicking on the View menu option and selecting the Library menu item, or by using the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L.
Locked and Unlocked Books
Books you are allowed to read and search are known as "unlocked books", and are shown with this icon. There may be other books present, known as "locked books" which you are not allowed to read or search, and they are shown with this icon.
You can purchase any locked book.
Author, Copyright & More
To find out details about a book, right-click on its title in the library, and choose Properties
The Tutorial Videos will help you quickly become familiar with Bible Navigator. Access them from the EasyStart Screen, or by clicking on the Help Menu, then selecting Tutorial Videos.
The videos run in a window on your computer and do not require any additional software to be installed.
With SmartLinks, just point your cursor at any scripture reference and the text pops up—in your preferred translation.
Discussion Groups provide forums for discussing a wide variety of topics, from Bible studies, to church history, to requesting prayer, to current events. They are not chat rooms; they are messages that are posted to bulletin boards for all to see.
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