Finding Highlighted Text 

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Text that you highlighted with Highlighter Pens

  • You can turn ON the Visual Filter for highlighting and then setting the Navigator Choice to Highlighting.
    This will allow you to use the navigation arrows on the Locator bar to move between highlighted text in your resource.
  • If you are not familiar with Highlighting, see the wiki page Highlighting

  • Example:
  1. Open your resource where you know that you have Highlighting used.
  2. Click on the Visual Filter icon on the resource’s toolbar.
  3. In the drop down menu, click on Highlighter Pens to check it.



  4. In the Locator bar, click on the Navigator Choice field.
    (If you don’t see the Locator bar, on your keyboard press Ctrl Shift L)

  5. In the drop down list of the Navigator Choice, click on Highlight.
    (this option in the list will not appear unless the Visual Filter for Highlighter Pens is checked, see step 2 & 3)



  6. Now you can use the vertical arrows on the Locator bar to navigate to highlighted text in your resource.
    (simply click on the down/up arrow to go to the next highlighted text)






Text that you have highlighted with Visual Filters

  • If you are not familiar with Visual Filters see Visual Filters wiki page.
  • You can find and navigate between Visual Filter highlighting in your resource.
    • Visual Filters are saved as a file, so if you click on File they will be located on the right side of the drop down menu.

  • Example:
    • This example has a Visual filter which finds the word written and applies orange outlined text to it in the book of Luke.
    • The visual filter is named WrittenFilter.



    • So you could create a simple Visual Filter to help you walk through this example. (see Visual Filters )

  1. Open your resource where you know that you have Visual Filters applied.
  2. Click on the Visual Filter icon on the resource’s toolbar.
  3. In the drop down menu under the heading Visual Filter, click to check the visual filter that you want to use.



  4. In the Locator bar, click on the Navigator Choice field.
    (If you don’t see the Locator bar, on your keyboard press Ctrl Shift L)

  5. In the drop down list of the Navigator Choice, click on Filter Highlight.
    (this option in the list will not appear unless the a Visual Filter is checked, see step 2 & 3)



  6. Now you can use the vertical arrows on the Locator bar to navigate to Visual Filtered text in your resource.
    (simply click on the down/up arrow to go to the next Visual Filtered text)






Finding all specific Highlighted text in a Resource

  • You can use the Search tool to locate Highlighted text.

Searching for a word with a specific highlighted pen

  1. Click on Search in the top menu.
  2. Click on All Bible text field.
  3. In the drop down menu, click on the arrow next to Highlighter Pens.
  4. Click to check the color that you want to search for.



  5. In the Find box enter your word that you want to search for.
    (in this example we have highlighted phrases with Lord with a blue highlighter pen)



  6. Open your Bible resource in which you’ve highlighted text.
  7. Click on the Navigation Choice in the Locator bar.
  8. In the drop down menu, click on Search Result.
  9. Now use the Navigator arrows on the Locator bar to move to locations of the search word.
  10. Notice as you click the navigator arrows that your highlighted word is shown in your Bible resource.



  • Note: in this example, highlighter pens was turned on in Visual Filters .
    As you will notice that text is highlighted and the search results have a 2nd highlight.



Searching for all highlighted text in a resource

  • To find all highlighting in resources you can use Search as shown below.

    a) Open a Search window.
    b) Change the search text to Highlighter Pens.
    c) Set your range and resources.
    d) In the Find box, enter the wildcard character * and click on the arrow to start the search. (this will take a long time)



    e) Now you can click on the verse(s) in the Search window to take you to your highlighting.
    (don’t forget to turn on the visual filter in your Bible to show Highlighter Pens)
Last modified February 18 by Dave Hooton

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