The Word Bible Software 3.0

The Word Bible Software 3.0 has been proved to be an intuitive and wonderful computer program which takes hundreds of Bibles, commentaries, dictionaries, books and maps to your hands. Even though the software is provided at no charge, that in no way suggests that the quality and caliber of The Word is anything less than what one would expect from top-of-the-line program. The Word Bible Software is one of the very best Bible study software programs available, commercial or otherwise.

Major Features:

1. Make it personal - organize your thoughts
   • Probably the single most important concept of the program is its versatility in allowing you, the end-user and student of the Bible, to put down your notes and thoughts. This translates into a myriad of unique functions which are properly organized to help you register your thoughts.
   • The program knows no separation between add-on modules (such as commentaries, maps or books) and personal, user modules. What you can get as an add-on resource you can also create for yourself directly from within the program (actually, most of the add-on resources of the library were created directly from within the program itself).
2. You can:
   • Write down your notes on Bible verses, chapters, books and passages within a user-commentary
   • Create books with multi-level hierarchies within a user book
   • Edit your own word-lists in a user dictionary
   • You can make modules to hold personal notes, make custom modules for distribution, or transfer an already written commentary/dictionary/book into a module for The Word. Once completed, the module can be made read-only and prepared for distribution to other users. Some modules can also be submitted to be made a part of the official The Word library on The Word website. There is also a useful external tool (Importer) that will let you convert and import notes and modules from other sources (e-Sword, Zefania, standard rtf files, etc.).
3. Moreover, for custom user modules, you may
   • Use the integrated editor that allows you to format your text with full support for tables and embedded pictures, footnotes and more.
   • Paste any content from your web browser in your notes, and all formatting and even pictures will be transferred properly.
   • Input verse references, all of which will be recognized and hyperlinked as you type them. You can automatically scan any text and recognize and hyperlink all verse references at once.
   • Use the available hyper-linking system to link everything in your modules: verses, topics, commentary entries, footnotes, etc.
   • Add your own cross-references (see below).
4. User Highlighting Everywhere
   • You can highlight text in any resource using several different styles, colors and underlines. No limitations whatsoever. You can do so with Bible and non-Bible resources.
5. Verse lists
   • Group verses together and create your own verse lists. You may view, edit, copy, print, etc.
   • Intuitive and Extensive Cross-Reference Support
   • The Word provides support for multiple user cross-reference sets. Adding cross-references is easy and intuitive. The Word cross-references (a.k.a. xrefs) are "smart" in that they also perform backward referencing so placing xrefs is not double-duty. Also, The Word provides access to all xrefs in a set in one place. You may also copy references from existing sets to new sets. Xrefs can be displayed inline with a Bible text in several positions or overlayed over existing xrefs of a Bible.
6. Book View: A Place for All Your Non-Bible Resources
   • The Book View hosts all add-on, non-Bible resources. All non-Bible modules, user-created or not, are displayed in this view. You can organize your modules in Book Views and create several resource-sets to group your library modules under logical names (e.g. Church Father’s writings, Dispensational Commentaries, etc). Each Book View can host any number of resources, organized in folders using standard buttons. Every book resource has its own button and can be accessed easily with a click. If you add to it the ability to create multiple views, you can see that the options are endless: you make your program as you want it with no restrictions.
   • Of course, there is automatic linking of the resources with the Bible! So, clicking on a verse in a Bible View will highlight for you all commentaries that contain an entry for this verse. Clicking on a word anywhere will highlight all dictionaries and books that have a topic/entry for this word.
7. Book Search View - Find Everything!
   • All resources are fully searchable. You can define your own collections of books to be searched or choose to search within previously defined resource-sets. Matched words are highlighted and navigation within big articles/topics is very easy.
   • Clipboard Monitor: Read the Text of Any Verse in Any Program
   • Reading something in a web page or a PDF file that contains a verse reference? No need to stop and go to your Bible program to check what the verses say anymore: you may just select the verse reference with your mouse and copy it to the clipboard. If running, The Word will instantly display a popup window under your mouse displaying the verse text. You don’t need to leave your web-browser and go back to your Bible program!
   • And it does not stop there. You may copy a whole article from a web-page and The Word will automatically detect and display all verse references in this text. From there, you can create a verse list, go back to see the verse context or just copy the verse text back in the clipboard.
   • Even when typing in your favorite word processor, you can just insert the text of a verse with a few keystrokes—no reason to change programs.
   • Clipboard monitor can recognize verse texts in all supported languages, not just English
8. Greek and Hebrew Support
   • Since the Bible was written in these two languages, special support for them is included in every function in the program. There are many Bible texts that integrate Strong’s numbers and concordance modules that display info for the original words, roots and grammatical information. Special Unicode fonts are used and included. Of course, the search engine handles them properly as well.
9. Copy Verses Out of the Program and Print Everything
   • If you write your own book, notes or prepare texts in other programs, The Word offers unique features in copying verses. You can customize the format of the copied text in a multitude of ways (including headers, customizing the numbering, etc) that matches your needs. Of course, copying content from all resources is well supported. Greek, Hebrew and other Unicode texts are copied properly, well formatted and ready to be pasted in your favorite editor.
   • Full printing support is also available for every text of the program, including a WYSIWYG preview, custom margins and page layouts.
   • Tailor Your Layouts; Save and Restore Them When Needed
   • With so many options to customize the program, it is natural that you want to create special layouts (workspaces) for special occasions!
   • The program comes with 8 predefined layouts (novice, standard, advanced, etc.) that allow you to quickly change the organization of views in a single click. The layouts do not just include the position of the windows but all settings of each view (remember there are many). So, you can create a simplistic workspace with just your Bible and 2 Bible Search Views for everyday study, or you can create a full study layout with 4 Book Views, loaded with your custom resources and corresponding Bible views to show in parallel your favorite translations.
10. Take It With You: The Word is Portable
    • Designed from scratch to be portable, The Word offers a compact mode of running that allows you to put it on your personal USB flash drive and run it from there. All features are available in this mode, except no trace is being left on the host PC. You can run it on the Internet cafe computer or your friend’s laptop. All your notes are always with you.
    • The official installer can create compact installations with a click; no hassle, no messing with registry settings or tweaking. If you wish, you may also get a pre-installed USB flash drive with a donation!
11. Numerous Skins to Customize the Look of The Word
    • The Word comes preloaded with more than 20 skins. You can preview any skin easily, and if none suit your taste, making an entirely new skin is not just for those who have a college degree in C++, but only require altering a text file, or using a simple skin builder to create your own.
12. Ever Expanding Library
    • The Word comes with many resources which you can download from the official The Word site. But that’s not all: you can find literally thousands of user-made modules or make your own and share them. Moreover, locked-modules are available for a nominal fee for commercial resources.
13. And ... There is More Than What You Read Here
    • Most software programs contain many more features that can be described in a feature list, and this is the case with The Word which has been designed with extreme versatility in mind. You will only be able to start realizing the power of The Word once you start using it. As many users have experienced, you will begin looking for features only to realize that most of them are already there.

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