Specialized theWord Study Area. Today we live in a day when most people have huge hard disks. Space is a luxury most people have. In this post, I just want to share with you something that I have been doing for years. It works really well most of the time. What I am talking about is physically making a tw installation on your computer for just a specialized study. What we are going to do is to set up an area with just certain modules.
What I am suggesting here can also be done with Module Layout Sets. So this is not the only way to set up something similar.
theWord Book Summary, theWord chapter summary
In this class, we will learn about the book and chapter summaries. Note that theWord has a lot of features that other programs don’t even consider, much less have. Continue reading theWord Book Summary, theWord chapter summary
I will be open about this, I don’t have a linux machine nor a Mac. But from the feedback from the many people who have installed theWord on these platforms it is fully possible to install and use the program on these platforms.
NOTE: Being a Mac or Linux user, you should be aware of the possibility of using Windows programs on your platform via a WINE (Windows Interpretation and Emulator). This WINE program is also free. These programs are platform specific, and they allow you to install theWord program on your machine. It is possible. Continue reading Installing theWord on Mac-Linux-Ubuntu
CLASS OBJECTIVE: In this tutorial class, I will show you how to use theWord inline commentaries function.
What you see below is a simple BibleView window (KJV on left, commentary on the right). What makes this such a powerful tool is that you can set your commentaries in this inline commentary function, and you can read through/study through a passage of Scripture and read the commentary with it quickly.
Before we get too involved in this one, there is a short-cut key to do this, which first is clicking in the BibleView Window you want the commentaries to appear in, and the typing a single letter:
N – Toggles the commentaries off (hides them).
C – Shows the commentaries below the Bible verse.
T – Show the commentaries besides the Bible verse (see image above for an example of this).
Note that there are two very distinct things here, your quick access to BibleView functions and options, and a full access to the options involved. If you click on the wheel or cog, then you get the full access to set the BibleView Window options. If you click on the down arrow beside the wheel, you will quickly activate or deactivate (hide or show) one of these functions.
Once having activated the BibleView Window (clicking in it), then you press Control+O to get into the toggle to show this. At this point, you should see something like this.
Now we want to click in the left-hand window to get to inline commentaries section.
What we see here are the settings for the inline commentary. (Above to activate it by short cut keys, and here in this dialog box you click the topmost checkbox to activate or deactivate it.
You can play with these options to change the “look and feel” of the commentary, but the important point here is that in the mini-window with the listing of your installed commentaries, you can check off the ones you want to see in the inline commentaries.
Note: You see double commentaries because you have more than one installed. In my case, I have some of these commentaries in a “commentaries” folder, and some in the main “books” folder in this installation, and as such, they appear twice. Don’t let this bother you. You can delete the redundant ones if you so desire. It doesn’t hurt to leave them either.
Here I am going to check off my recommended commentaries:
Recommended Commentaries
Click link name of the commentary to go to the download page for that module. All these commentaries are free by the way.
So this (below) is something like what it looks like:
The power of theWord is seen when you set this up, and can quickly scan through a passage and see various different commentaries quickly on a given passage. theWord saves you time, gives you power. Study the image above. This is really a great, powerful tool for Bible study. You cannot underestimate how much you can do with these tools!
Conclusion
Remember, what you want to do is to get to this point extremely quickly. So once you are here, To make this into a screen layout, Go to the main TW menu, View-> Layout -> Save Current Layout – (name it)
This video goes through making a text sermon using the Commentaries inline.
The theWord program can have a multiple of Bibles for you to study with. It can even compare between Bibles, and search for words, phrases, and parts of words across many or all Bibles. But understanding how to use these Bibles with theWord is the key. Continue reading theWord Installing Bibles
