SwordSearcher's Main Window Toolbar provides quick access to several often-used functions.
Sample of SwordSearcher's Main Toolbar Area
You can reorganize the toolbars by click-dragging the grips on the left of each toolbar. You can toggle the display of each toolbar with the Toolbars submenu on the View main menu.
Go to Verse toolbar
The Go to Verse toolbar is the fastest way to start studying a verse. Click the text area (or press F6), then type a verse reference and press Enter. The Bible panel will go to the specified verse; the Commentary panel will open the text for the specified verse in the active commentary; and a Verse Guide will be opened for the specified verse(s). You can disable the commentary and verse guide synchronization in Preferences: Sync Options.
Specify a verse by typing the first two or three letters of the book name. For books with numbers, use a digit like this: 2Ti 3:16 (for Second Timothy, chapter 3, verse 16). You can use a period instead of a semicolon for faster typing.
Here are some examples of valid verse references:
Ge 1.1 (for Genesis 1:1)
2Ti 3.16-17 (for Second Timothy, chapter 3, verses 16 and 17)
Ro 1 (for Romans chapter 1)
See Bible Book Abbreviations for SwordSearcher's standard Bible book abbreviations. SwordSearcher understands over 2,000 variations of Bible book abbreviations. When in doubt, just spell out the first few letters of a book name.
When you specify a range of more than one verse, such as a chapter, the Bible and Commentary panels are set to the first verse of the range, and the Verse Guide opens for the entire range (to a maximum of a full chapter).
Quick Bible Search toolbar
This toolbar makes it easy to quickly search the active Bible. Click the text area (or press Shift+F2) and type a word or words to search for and press Enter. A Verse List will be loaded with all of the verses matching your search using the Bible text that is currently active in the Bible panel.
While you will normally just type a word to search for, the Quick Bible Search also fully supports SwordSearcher's advanced search expression syntax (see for details).
Simple tips: Entering multiple words will find verses that contain all of the words. You can search for a phrase by enclosing the words in quotes, like "jesus christ". For more advanced searching capability, use the Search Bible dialog or advanced expressions.
The Quick Bible Search toolbar will also suggest alternate words if you enter a single word and it is not found in the active Bible text. For example, entering "color" in the Quick Bible Search toolbar when the KJV is active will bring up this dialog:
Word suggestion for "color" in the KJV
This is because color is spelled colour in the KJV, which uses British spelling. The suggestion dialog presents the ten most likely matching words. This feature works well any time you use an American spelling of words like savior, color, favor, etc., and is remarkably effective in correcting spelling errors. When this dialog appears, you can immediately press Enter to search the most likely word, or Esc to cancel.
The word suggestion feature only applies when searching for a single word. For a more advanced word lookup tool, see the Word List feature of the Search Bible dialog.
Copy Toolbar
The Copy Toolbar
Copy Selected Text: Copies selected text to the clipboard.
Copy Some Verses: Opens the Copy Verses dialog, for copying verses to the Windows clipboard.
Search functions toolbar
Search Bible: Opens the advanced Search Bible dialog.
Full Library Search: Opens the Full Library Search dialog, for searching the contents of the entire library at once.
Open Topic Guide: Opens the Topic and Verse Guide, a mega-index of all of the library modules.
Open English-Strong's Indexer: Opens the English-Strong's Indexer, similar to Young's Analytical Concordance.
Open Scan Text for Verse References tool: Opens the Scan Text for Verse References tool, which hot-links verse references in any text you provide, such as a document from a web page.
Layout and Tabs toolbar
Restore Last Set Layout positions and sizes the display panels (Bible, Book, etc) according to the last layout used ("Bible on Left" by default). The Layout Selection Menu selects which layout style to use, or saves and loads custom layouts. See Panel Layout.
Library Tabs Visibility opens the Visible Library Tabs page of Preferences, where you can select which library resources have visible tabs in the Bible, Book, and Commentary panels. Use this to switch off library resources you rarely use in order to reduce screen clutter. See Managing Library Tabs.