Select and Mark Verses

You can select verses and then highlight them, apply bookmarks, or add a User Note. Bookmarks are saved in your Library. A symbol to the right of the verse appears indicating if it was bookmarked or if a User Note has been added.

You can highlight a word, a sentence, or an entire verse with colors, or apply a highlight symbol.
Bookmarks are resource Any Bible text, or other single tool that can be read in Accordance, including reference texts and articles; may also be referred to as content or module specific and saved in the Library.
All User Notes can be saved in one file, for ease of access.

This topic provides a very brief overview for selecting and marking verses in one of these ways.

Note

This topic specifically relates to working with a Bible Text or corpus Collection of writings. You can also apply Highlights, Bookmarks, and User Notes to your Tool resources. Each of the items below are discussed in more detail in the related topics.

Example of selection, a User Note marker, and a bookmark

Select VersesSelect Verses

A verse is selected whenever you click on text, or select text anywhere within the verse.
A selection can include more than one adjacent verse in a pane.
After a verse is selected, its reference is used to access some amplify To select words or a reference and search for the selection in the text or tool of your choice. You can select the resource in the Library or Amplify menus. A triple-click is a shortcut which amplifies to the top tool of the relevant category. features, and also to add to a reference list in the Selection menu.

Add and Remove BookmarksAdd and Remove Bookmarks

Note

Bookmarks are saved in the Library.

Bookmarks can be added to selected verses by selecting the desired text and doing one of the following:

Press Shift+ Opt+; in this case the verse does not need to be selected.
Press +7.
Click Selection>Mark Selection.

Blue bookmarks appear in the right margin of the selected text pane, and Mark buttons appear in the Navigation bar. Use the Mark button to navigate between bookmarks.

Remove a bookmark by doing one of the following:

Press Shift+ Opt+.
Press +7 .
Click Selection>Remove All Marks to remove all bookmarks.

Marks for User NotesMarks for User Notes

Adding a User Note to a verse marks the verse with a single-page icon () in the same margin.
The icon changes to twp pages () if there is more that one note on the verse.
Double-click the single- or two-page icon to open the User Notes for that verse.

More about HighlightsMore about Highlights

All Highlights are saved in a special file which you can modify. You can also create different highlight styles. The following procedure assumes that you are new to Highlights and working with the pre-installed Highlight file.

Select a word or verse.
Right-click and choose Highlight>Important or Highlight>Symbols and select the desired symbol. The Highlight color or symbol is added to your text.