TheWord Bible Study Program

Using, Saving, and Restoring Layouts

Propose: Suppose you want to do two different types of work with TW. Say you are preaching through a book of the Bible, and you want to see all the commentaries beside the text, and are not really interested in book modules. For sermon preparation you want to see both a Bible View window, and a Book View window. Likewise you might want to see two Book View Windows side-by-side. To move the windows back and forth is time consuming, and to jump back and forth ridiculous.

So thus, we have a program layout which will save a particular layout of the windows, from which you can restore the program to this default state.

Note that I have saved a number of personal layouts here. But first let's look at the default program layouts.

The best way to show this is to just click through them and see how they work.

Predefined: 1. Beginner Layout

This is just a Bible View Window with a Bible Tree window to the left.

Predefined: 2. Novice Layout

This has three windows, a Bible Tree window, a Bible Search window, and a Bible Window with Strongs and Bible headers activated.

Predefined: 3. Basic Layout

This has five windows, a Bible Tree window, a Bible Search window, and a Bible Window with Strongs and Bible headers activated, a Book Module window, and a Book Module search window.

Predefined: 4. Default Layout

This has five windows, a Bible Tree window, a Bible Search window, and a Bible Window, and two Book Module windows.

Predefined: 5. Common 1 Layout

This has four windows, a Bible Tree window, and a Bible Window, and two Book Module windows.

Predefined: 6. Common 2 Layout

This has four windows, a Bible Window (showing multiline all the versions available), a Bible search window, and two Book Module windows.

Predefined: 7. Advanced 1 Layout

This has four windows, two Bible windows with Strongs showing, a Bible search window, and a Book Module window.

Predefined: 8. Advanced 2 Layout

This has six windows, a two Bible windows with Strongs showing, a Bible search window, two Book Module windows, and a Book Search View window.

How to save your own layout

The first step in saving your own layout is to move the windows around like what you want, opening or closing the windows and changing the options for what you see in each window. Once you get everything to the way you want it, click View->Layout->Save current layout (last item on this menu below). Note that these layouts will include the particular Bible version and book modules that you have open, and the place in each of these Bibles or Books that you have currently selected.

What you should see when you click "Save current layout" is this.

Here you can save to a default name "User layout 1", or make your own name for the layout ("or as" yourname),  or replace one of the user layouts you already predefined.

How to restore your own layout

Restoring to a previously defined layout is easy. click View->Layout-> and click on one of the "My Layouts" at the top of the menu, or a "Predefined layout". There are also options for deleting a layout, or renaming it.