Customizing the Bible Word Study Guide
Updated for Logos 8
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What is a Custom Bible Word Study guide?
Logos provides several types of Guides, with the Bible Word Study being one of them. You can customize the sections that will be in the guide and arrange the order in which they are shown, and preserve those settings in a custom guide for subsequent use. Your custom guide is listed in the Guides menu, together with the default BWS guide.
You can create as many custom BWS guides as you like, but in Logos 7 you should name one of them My Bible Word Study to indicate it is your preferred guide. Then it will be used in places like the right-click Context menu.
Logos provides a Guide Editor, which makes it quick and easy to create or change a custom BWS guide.
Customizing the Bible Word Study guide
Creating a Custom Bible Word Study guide from scratch
- In the top menu click on Guides.
- In the drop down menu click on:
- New > Make a new Guide (Logos 8)
- Make a new guide template (Logos 7)
This opens the Guide Editor.

- In the Guide Editor, click on Bible word in order to populate sections for the BWS guide.

- Click on the pencil icon (on in the title box) to name your custom guide.
- See Using the Guide Editor below to edit your new custom guide.
Editing a Custom Bible Word Study guide
- In the top menu click on Guides.
- In the drop down menu, locate the custom BWS guide that you want to make changes to, and click to open it.
- In your custom BWS guide, click on the panel menu.

- In the drop down menu click on Edit this guide or Edit guide template.
- Logos will open the Guide Editor in a new tab.

- If you want to change the guide’s name, click on the pencil icon, or in the title box.
- See Using the Guide Editor below to edit your Custom guide.
Using the Guide Editor
Ensure you have opened the Guide Editor (see above for opening it).
In Logos 8, the editor is similar, but a new guide is saved under Custom Guides in the menu.

- First make sure that Bible word is selected.
- When it is, you will selections for BWS.

- If you click on Bible Word Study in the All Sections from... list,
- Logos will populate all the sections into the area on the opposite side.
- Notice the X in the right corner of each section header. If you click on this X Logos will remove that section. You can always add it back by clicking the same section in the Individual Sections list
- it will be added at the bottom and you can relocate it by dragging.
- Notice that some sections allow you to further customize them. Make selections to suit the purpose of your guide.

- Alternatively you can add sections one at a time from the Individual Sections list. The order that you click on them will be the order that they appear in the guide.
This might save you a little time in that you will not have to reorder them.
- To change the position of a section use your mouse to drag its header to the new location.
Logos displays a horizontal bar to indicate the new location.
Some suggested Custom BWS guides