Explorer

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What is the Explorer tool?

The Explorer tool acts like a mini-Passage Guide which will Follow the active resource or you can have it follow a linked resource. As mentioned, it is not a full Passage Guide. Unlike the Passage Guide, it can dynamically show you useful information without having to type a passage and search.

To open Explorer, click on Tools in the top menu. Then select Explorer as shown below.

Hint: you can open multiple copies of the Explorer tool.

Searches for People / Places / Things pertaining to the passage shown in the reference box.
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Searches your documents & custom/saved Guides (Notes, Clippings, Passage Lists, etc) pertaining to the passage shown in the reference box.

Searches for Cross References pertaining to the passage shown in the reference box.
(These come from cross-reference resources in your Library, such as the TSK or NTSK)
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Searches your Commentaries & Bible Note type pertaining to the passage shown in the reference box.
Hint: If you hover your mouse over the commentary link, Logos will show you a pop-up box revealing a snapshot of what that commentary has found for your passage. (see this post)

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By clicking on any of the links in these fields, it will open the appropriate resource in the associated window.

Follow allows Explorer to follow which ever resource that you click (resources which are navigated via Bible passages).
When Follow is selected, an Astrix appears in the window’s icon as shown below.

When linked to one of the standard Letters, it follows the Bible passage which the resource has in its reference box.
See Linking Resources.
If you are not familiar with Linking, please watch this video Bibles and Commentaries. About half way through it discusses Linking which is a feature that links different resources together so that they will track each other (as you move along in a Bible then if the commentary is linked, it will track where you are in the Bible).

When None is selected, it follows what ever passage appears in the reference box. This might come in handy when you want to search for info on a particular passage. This would also work well when you want to use it from a Pop-up Menu (when you right click on a selection in a resource and you get a Pop-up Menu).

When you select a word or series of words in a resource and click the right mouse button, a Pop-up Menu appears. Now if you select Reference (on the right side of the Pop-up), you should see Explorer on the left side of the Pop-up Menu. Then when you click it, the Bible passage will appear in Explorer and it will search for pertinent info.

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