Layouts

Creating a Layout

1. Open resources
   • include Documents, Guides, and Tools from the App toolbar
2. Move Tabs / Close Tabs
3. Link Resources
4. Name your layout
5. Choose what happens when you restart Logos

Using a pre-defined Layout

The Layouts menu has QuickStart layouts that you can use for your study. They can also be accessed from the Home Page or the Command Box, and you can customize them for your purposes.

1. Open the Layouts menu:
   
   
   
   
2. Click on Quickstart Layouts.
3. Click on the desired layout.
   • If a layout indicates Custom, it has been changed from its default (below).
4. Make any changes you want.
5. Name your layout
6. Choose what happens when you restart Logos

NOTE: If you want to change the default for any of these layouts:

• Make the changes you want.
• Hover over the layout name, click the down arrow and select “Replace with current layout”.
  • you can undo this with “Restore default layout”.
• Thereafter, you can add the custom layout to the Home Page or open it from the Command Box e.g. study Jn 3:16.

Opening from Library

1. Click on the Library icon at the top of your Logos window (for more information see Library).
   
   
   
   
2. In the Find box, type the initials or name of the book that you want to open e.g. NKJV for the New King James Version (or scroll down/up to find it)
3. From your library, click on the Title of the book. This will then open the book into a panel or a tab in your layout.

Opening from the Command Box

The Command box is found at the top of the Logos window. See Open Commands for more info.

1. In the Command box, type the command for the resource that you want to open (you can use short titles) e.g.
   • NKJV to open the New King James Version
   • open passage guide
2. In the drop-down menu that appears click the book, tool, guide or document that you need e.g.
   • select Open the New King James Version.

Opening similar books

Logos recognizes books that are similar to those currently being viewed and provides a way to open them:

1. Open a book like a Bible, Encyclopedia, or Commentary i.e. ones that are indexed.
2. Click on the + sign to the right of the tab in the window (Ctrl+T is a shortcut). This will open a New Tab.
   
   
   
   
3. You will see icons of books on the left and a list of books on the right.
   
   
   
   Select from the icons or the list. Logos will open that book in the New Tab.
   
   

• Also see Equivalent Books

Opening a 2nd copy or moving to a Floating window

1. Right click on the Tab of a resource.
2. To open a 2nd copy of this resource, click Duplicate.
   • Alternatively, hold the Ctrl key down and drag the tab to a new location.
     MacOS: use the Cmd key.
3. To move this resource to a Floating window, click Open in a floating window.

Opening from a link

Although obvious, you can also open a resource from links in other resources, including Guides and Tools e.g.
Information, Cited By, Power Lookup, Explorer, Passage Guide.

1. Click on the link in Explorer.
   
   

Moving a single tab

• Drag a single tab and drop it in a new location indicated by the shadow image around the cursor. It can create a new tile or be dropped between tabs in an existing tile.

Moving all tabs in a tile

• If you hold the shift key down then click on a tab and start dragging the tab, all the tabs in that tile will move and you can drop them in a new location on your layout.

Using the X

1. Click on the resource’s Tab so that it is visible.
2. Click on the X on the right side of this Tab’s window.

Using the Right Click

1. Right click on the resource’s Tab.
2. When the drop down menu appears, click on Close this tab.
   
   
   

Using the keyboard

1. Click on the resource’s Tab so that it is visible.
2. From the keyboard, press the key combination Ctrl+F4.