Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.

On the File menu in Logos you can create all sorts of documents: Notes, Visual Filters, Prayer Lists, etc. After a while you will have a long list of documents on the File menu so finding the one you want to open may be challenging. Here is but one way among many to quickly open a document from the long list:

• Let’s say you created a Passage List called Adoption Verses
• In the Command box type Open Adoption
• Click Open Passage List named Adoption Verses from the drop down list of commands

The document opens without your ever having to go to the File menu!

What file type do you commonly use? Leave us a comment and let us know!

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.

At Tools | Program Settings you can tell Logos when to search for and download updates.  You can also initiate an update any time you like:

• Make sure you are connected to the internet
• Type Update Now in the Command box
• Press the Enter key
• A popup “window” indicates if an update has been found
• After the download completes, restart Logos to install the update

Remember to check your Logos Home Page for a description of any new features downloaded or a list of updated resources.

For those of you who have updated recently, leave us a comment and let us know what you think about the new update description reporting.

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos training seminars.

A Logos user recently emailed this question to me:

If I wanted to find out where an O.T. book is quoted in the N.T. could it be done? For example, how would I find out all the places in the N.T. where any verse from Habakkuk is quoted?

You’ll be happy to know, a Logos resource supplies all the information so you don’t even have to conduct a search:

• Open the Library
• Type this in the Library’s Find box: type:harmony
• Open the resource: OT Quotations and Allusions in the NT
• Choose the panel menu on the resource
• Select Show table of contents
• Click a book of the Bible, like Habakkuk, in the table of contents

The resource displays the OT passage along with where it’s mentioned in the NT!

You’ve just received Logos 4. You’ve waited patiently while your resources are installed and indexed, and looked through some of the exciting videos that introduce you to Logos’ great features. You’ll find Logos is incredibly powerful, and the possibilities of study are endless! You’ve probably got hundreds or even thousands of resources, dozens of tools, and millions of words. So where do you start?

You’ll be glad to know that Logos has some wonderfully simple tools which pull together the most relevant information from across your library and present it to you in a matter of seconds. If you’re taking your first steps in Logos 4, there’s one tool you’ll want to make your first port of call—the ‘Go’ box on the homepage.

To use it, just type in the Bible passage you’re interested in, and press go.

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Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos
training seminars.

One of the downsides to reading traditional print books is that the lines of text are usually very long. Our eyes are constantly moving from left to right and back  left again which slows us down. Newspaper articles, however, appear in columns with shorter lines of text. We read those articles up and down which increases our reading speed. We can now read our Logos books the same way with newspaper columns.

Here’s how:

• Open a Logos resource such as a Bible or dictionary
• Click the resource’s panel menu
• Locate on the menu the option called Columns
• Select the number of columns (1-5) you want to appear in the panel (Auto allows Logos to adjust the columns based on the width of the panel)

You can now read that resource just like a newspaper! To turn the pages, click the arrows in the lower right corner (lower left corner for right to left resources) of the panel.

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos
training seminars.

As you probably know, the developers at Logos are constantly producing new software features to assist our Bible study. When they’re available, the program downloads an update. Sometimes, however, a download may start when you’re not quite ready for it. No worries. The developers just gave us a download scheduler so we can pick the best time to receive those enhancements:

• Choose Tools | Program Settings
• Select a time range to download from the two drop down lists near the top of the panel

You’ll also be happy to know that your Logos Bible Software Home Page will now contain release notes describing any new features you’ve downloaded. The developers not only give us new features, they now tell us what they are. Three cheers for the Logos development team!!!

Today’s post is from Morris Proctor, certified and authorized trainer for Logos Bible Software. Morris has trained thousands of Logos users at his two-day Camp Logos
training seminars.

Since we’re a part of a big Logos family, I can be transparent with you. A short while ago it finally happened: I opened my Bible in the pulpit to read the passage for the sermon and I could barely see the text! Those reading glasses are coming sooner than I thought. With Logos, however, I can continue to delay the spectacles because the software allows us to produce instant large print books:

• Choose Tools | Program Settings
• Click the drop down list for Default Text Size in the Fonts section
• Select a desired percentage (Hint: the older you are, the higher percentage you probably need)

All of the books in your library are suddenly large print! So simple, yet oh so helpful! If this little trick didn’t currently apply to you, please file it. Trust me you’ll need one day!

Logos has provided a wonderful tool for Logos users, the Logos 4 Wiki. It contains instructions and help pages which are supplied by users. Its content is continually growing as users add new wiki pages. Many of the pages have illustrated step-by-step instructions for how to use a feature. So the wiki is similar to an online user’s manual. The beauty of the wiki is that you can use it to learn about Logos 4 features, then—if you have any questions—you can easily go to the Logos Forums and ask.

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