TheWord Bible Study Program

How to add individual modules to a Module Set.

What is a Module Set? A module set is a group of modules that THEWORD will see collectively as a single group. In other words, you create a module set of say Systematic Theology books (modules). Then you individually add these modules to the set. You set that module set as active and by doing this, these are all the modules that you will see. (Bible are excluded from these module sets).

Note: Costas previously used the word "layout" for module sets and for layouts of the windows, but has recently changed this (layouts of modules are now "module sets").

Why would use a Module Set? You have to use module sets to see your books. What advantage is there to having module sets then? The advantage comes in searching. You can have one module set for just theology books for example, and when you search, only the books in that module set will be searched. This greatly reduces the time in searching as well as reducing a great number of hits that would be of little use in the search.

Say I am searching for the meaning of the word "Jehovah" or Lord. If I search 500 books on the word "Jehovah" or worse, "Lord", I will get a tremendous amount of results that I have to wade through which are not what I want. So if I make a Module Set of theology books, I can probably reduce the results to just those that are best suited to having an good hit. If I reduce my module set even more to make a module set on the doctrine of God, or specifically, the names of God, I will go right to the best hits of all the books I own. I add books or take books away from a module set at will, so I can refine what is in each module set very easily.

Installing Modules, and making a Module Set in a Quick and Easy semi-Automated Method

In order to do this, YOU MUST FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS PRECISELY!!!

1. Open THEWORD. (Do not uncompress, copy or install the new modules to your THEWORD folder yet).

2. Select the Module Set you want to add the modules to.

3. Close THEWORD.

How this works. THEWORD will automatically scan its default program folder for new modules every time it starts up. It will ask you if you want to add any new modules it has found to your Module Set currently loaded (on startup). If you answer yes, it will add the modules to that module, no matter how many there are. If you say no, it will still register these new modules but not in the current Module Set view. NOTE: THEWORD will give you no option to choose which Module Set you want to add them to, so you have to open THEWORD beforehand, make active the Module Set you want to add the new modules to, and then shut it down, etc.

4. Copy the new modules into your THEWORD program folder. If it is an exe then run it after checking for viruses. If it is a ZIP uncompress it. All THEWORD modules will end in TWM.

5. Open THEWORD. When it asks if you want to add these new modules, answer yes.

The Manual Method

The Module Set dialog box is accessed by a small triangle on the BookView Window.

The important option here is Organize. Click organize (your Module Sets) and you should see something like the dialog box below.

Module Sets - Module Sets are very simply a set of modules that you have grouped for easier use. All the modules that are available for use are on the left hand side of this window, and those in the current Module Set are in the right hand part of the window at left.

Templates - This is to organize the modules in the Module Set by type or alphabetically by title.

New Folder - Within the Module Set (what modules you will see in the module selector bar) you can have folders, which will have modules within them. This button creates a new folder.

Rename Folder - This button renames an existing folder.

Delete - This button will delete either the module or the folder. Note that this does not actually delete the module at all, but deletes it from the Module Set (the right hand side of this window).

[ ] Save this set: - Your Module Set will be for this session only unless you save it. To save it, you must click this checkbox, and when you click [OK] at the bottom of the dialog box, it will ask you...

Filter - This is used to filter your modules so that you can find things more rapidly. For example, perhaps we want to look for Archibald Alexander's books.

This helps us to filter out everything except the keyword or phrase in the filter box.

The second tab on this dialog box is "Choose existing set/select directly".

This is to show or hide Module Sets on the Module Set triangle (dropdown box) options.

Training Video - How to create and populate a Module Set.

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