How to Set a Background in theWord Views

How to Set a Background in theWord Views explains some tips on changing the actual View windows (mini-windows) within theWord Bible Software program.

A user asked me about setting a darker theme for theWord because the white background hurts her eyes. So this post explains some of the suggestions I gave her. Note before we start that most monitors/computer setups nowadays have options to brighten or darker the monitor as a whole. So that option should be explored first. The problem is that one size doesn’t fit all. In other words, depending on the individual’s eye problems, some might have “dimmed eyes” where a brighter monitor is better, and others would prefer to have a darker monitor, usually considered a darker theme.

TheWord has several options that we will explore.


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For reference, please see also Using theWord with Bad Eyesight

Option 1 Using a Background in the Book View Window

Go to Main menu View-> Skins. You can pass the cursor over each of those included (my default installation dozens of skins) and this will change the colors of the bars and menus. I think you want the text darker, or the background darker.
For this, you can change the background color (or use an image, like a colored page) to set the book reader’s background. Study this image below.
theWord background reader color
theWord background reader color
In the green arrow at the top left of a viewer window, click on that button, then on the options’ menu, Reader’s background color, and finally select the background color you want.
See https://www.shutterstock.com/search/book-old-pages-scanned for a lot of blank gray background images. Your image of eSword was a lot darker, so I think the solid color above would probably work best for what you want, but it is customizable. From what I played around with it, you have to set each Book view window one at a time.

Option 2 Using a Background in the Bible View Window

For the Bible View window,
thewordtutorial bible background
thewordtutorial bible background

Click in the Bible View window, and press Control+O.

theword tutorial background Bible view window
theword tutorial background Bible view window

Again, you will see the option “Reader’s background image” to make an image for the background. The right-hand three options are what you want, probably. I clicked in the lightest gray option for background, and the second one below that is the background color when you highlight a verse. If you click on “Other” at the bottom of those colors,

theword tutorial Bible view background basic colors
theword tutorial Bible view background basic colors

theword tutorial Bible view background basic colors2
theword tutorial Bible view background basic colors2

If you click on “Define Custom Colors” you will be able to pick from some million colors.

Option 3 Changing the Menu Bar colors

The actual menu bar for the Bible menu is set in the upper left icon menu.

theword tutorial changing the menu bar colors
theword tutorial changing the menu bar colors

I changed mine in this image to the first button at the bottom of the menu, the red one. This is limited, but there are some choices still. The bar is a darker blue.

In the upper left corner of the window views windows, there is an icon, beside the verse reference, click on that and you should see the image above.

This “Caption Color” controls all the windows inside theWord, and there are only four options here. All windows captions are set to the same Color Scheme.

How to Set a Background in theWord Views

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