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Study Tools

This page will introduce you to highlighting, notes, dictionaries, book synchronization, window snapshots, and more.

Tip: Double-click on a word to search for it.

Results Window


Book Navigation

Scroll through the text or use the table of contents to jump to a section. When you scroll, the citation bar will display your current location in the book.

Table of Contents

The Table of Contents panel shows the structure of the text. Table of contents entries will often be referred to as reference levels.

Note: If you upload your own text, it will not automatically include a table of contents.

  • Click on a reference level to navigate to that section.
  • Click + to expand the levels.
  • Right click > Reposition Table of Contents to open the table of contents to your current location in the text.
  • Some books have multiple tables of contents. For these books, you can go to the toolbar to select Book > Options and switch the default table of contents.

Window History

Shortcut: ALT + Left/right arrow.

WordCruncher remembers the windows you have viewed. This includes any searches, reports, or hyperlink jumps.

How to Use:

In the WordCruncher toolbar, select Go > Back/ Forward.

If a hyperlink leads to a spot within the same book, the link will open in the current window. You can also choose to open the hyperlink in a separate window by right-clicking on a hyperlink > Execute Hyperlink in a New Window.

Snapshots

A snapshot remembers your whole window. It will save your spot in every book you have open, in addition to other open windows.

To change snapshot settings, go to the WordCruncher toolbar, click Edit > Preferences, and select the Workspace tab.

Take a Snapshot

  1. Position your windows exactly how you would like the snapshot to remember them.
  2. Click Go > Take Snapshot.
  3. Name the new snapshot.
  4. Click OK.

Open a Snapshot

  1. Click Go > Snapshots.
  2. Select a snapshot.

Parallel Books

Some books are synchronized so that when you read them side-by-side, they move together. For example, you could download the same book in two different languages from the bookstore, and they will automatically synchronize as you scroll.

The bookstore offers the following synchronized multi-language books:

Disable Synchronization

In the toolbar, click Book > Pin the window (no synchronization).

Synchronize Your Own Texts

You may have texts of your own that you would like to synchronize. If your texts have the same ETTX tag and reference levels (set in the ETAX file), then they will synchronize when you index them. Learn more about the ETTX tag.



Markup

Add notes, highlight the text, and categorize your markup with topics.

Notes

Create a Note

  1. Open a book.
  2. Select a section of text.
  3. Click the Create Note icon.
  4. Add text to the note.
  5. Click the Save icon.

Reposition a Note

  1. Open a book.
  2. Select a note.
  3. Choose a new spot for the note and click it.
  4. Click the Reposition Note icon.
  5. Click the Save icon.

Note Files

When you create a note, WordCruncher saves it in a note file on your computer. To view the location of these note files, reattach note files, or remove note files, go to the Note Files menu: in the WordCruncher toolbar, go to Note > Properties.



Highlighting

The three highlighter icons in the toolbar allow you to have multiple highlighters available at one time.

Add Highlighting

  1. Open a book.
  2. In the toolbar, choose a highlighter icon.
  3. Click the highlighter drop-down > Change Marker Color.
  4. Set the highlight style.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Select the text.
  7. Click the highlighter icon.

Delete Highlighting

  1. Click the highlighter drop-down > Delete Highlight from the menu.
  2. Select highlighted text.
  3. Click the highlighter icon you just modified.


Topics

Enhance your qualitative markup by creating a topic. Then, attach the topic to highlights or notes.

After you assign a topic to highlights or notes, you can search within that topic’s associated highlighted text and notes by using Note-topic bounds.

How to Use:

  1. In the toolbar, choose a highlighter icon.
  2. Click a highlighter drop-down > Edit Topics....
  3. Click Add.
  4. Name the topic.
  5. Choose a highlighter color.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Add the topic to highlights or notes.
    1. For highlights:
      1. Select the text.
      2. Choose a highlighter drop-down.
      3. Select a topic.
      4. Highlight the text.
    2. For notes:
      1. Select a note.
      2. Click the topic drop-down.
      3. Select a topic.
      4. Click Save.


Bookmarks

Save your spot in a book.

Create a Bookmark

  1. Open a book.
  2. Right-click > Add Bookmark....
  3. Name the bookmark.

    4. Optional: Assign it to a folder.

  4. Click OK.

Go to a Bookmark

  1. Open a book.
  2. Right click > Bookmarks....
  3. Choose a bookmark.
  4. Click OK.

Move a Bookmark

Update or replace the location of an existing bookmark.

  1. Open a book.
  2. On the new spot, right click > Bookmark (replace)....
  3. Select a bookmark.
  4. Choose whether to update the name of the bookmark.

    5. If you select this, the name of the bookmark will match the new citation.

  5. Click Replace.

Organize Bookmarks

If you have many bookmarks, create folders to keep them organized.

  1. Open a book.
  2. Right click > Add Bookmark....
  3. Click Create Folder.
  4. Name the folder.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Right click > Organize Bookmarks....
  7. Select a bookmark.
  8. Click Options.
  9. Rename, delete, or move a bookmark/folder from one folder to another.
  10. Click OK.


Tagwords

Some books have associated tagwords—metadata attached to a word or section. For example, Hebrew Scriptures (part of the Dead Sea Scrolls Electronic Library – Biblical Texts) contains tagwords with morphological data.

How to Use:

  1. Open a book with tagwords.
  2. Toggle the Tagwords panel.
  3. Hover over a word in the book to view its tagword data.

    4. By default, the tagwords menu will update when you hover. To show tagwords by clicking instead of hovering, go to Book > Tag Window Click Mode.

Hebrew Bible tagwords


Dictionaries

Look up a word to see its definition.

Some books (like The Scriptures) come with dictionaries. If you do not have a dictionary downloaded, try Noah Webster’s 1844 American Dictionary of the English Language.

Note: If you have just installed a new dictionary, you may need to close and reopen WordCruncher before using it.

How to Use:

  1. Open a book.
  2. Right click > Look Up This Word In Dictionary.
  3. Click on any word in a book to view its definition.


Display

Adjust the window and show/hide book features.

Dockable Tool Windows

Keep a window docked to the side.

  1. Open a window (e.g., dictionary window).
  2. In the toolbar, click Window > Dockable Tool Window.

To hide the docked window, click X in the top right corner.

Remove a Docked Window

  1. Click within the docked window.
  2. In the toolbar, click Window > Dockable Tool Window.

Reader Bar

Keep your place while reading. In the toolbar, click View > Reader Bar.

Show/Hide Book Features

Choose to display or hide tagwords, reference levels, superscripts, parts of speech, and other features in a specific book.

  1. Open a book.
  2. In the WordCruncher toolbar, go to Book > Options.
  3. Check features to display.
  4. Click OK.

Show part of speech

To show part of speech markup (in books tagged by part of speech) and further customize software display, adjust your User Preferences.

  1. In the WordCruncher Toolbar, go to Edit > Preferences.
  2. In the View tab, select whether you would like to view primary parts of speech (POS) only, all POS markup, POS abbreviations, and POS colors.

In this same tab, you can also change the software language, show larger icons (Use large toolbar bitmaps), and disable the search window spell checker.



Reference Books

A reference book is a resource, such as a dictionary, translation guide, or appendix, which you can assign to a book.

  1. In the WordCruncher toolbar, click File > Open Book....
  2. Select a book from the WordCruncher User Library.
  3. Click Options > Properties > Options....
  4. Select the Reference Books tab.
  5. Select a book and click the right arrow.
  6. Click OK.