Editing User Tools

A User Tool is written or edited in the User Tool Edit window. The Edit window is most quickly opened by trying to type in the User Tool tab.

When you open a User Tool in an Edit window, the date and time it was last edited is displayed in the top right of the Edit window, under the toolbar.

Enter text in the Edit window by typing or by copying and pasting. Use the Edit window shortcut menuClosed Also known as a contextual menu, acessed by right-clicking (or pressing Ctrl+Click, Mac only) over a screen element to check the spelling or search for and replace text in the same manner as when editing a User Note. In fact, editing a User Tool is quite similar to editing User Notes, with only a few minor differences.

Use the Edit Window toolbar to quickly edit the text of a note in a variety of ways.

Edit Window toolbar for User Tools: Use the toolbar to change the input language, font type, size, color, insert pictures and more

# Pop-up Menu / Button Function
1 Language pop-up menu Click to choose the language you want to type in: Hebrew, Greek, or English letters
2 Font Type pop-up menu Click to choose the desired font
3 Font Style pop-up menu Click to choose the font style
4 Font Size pop-up menu Click to choose the font size
5 Font Color pop-up menu Click to choose the font color
6 Bold, Italics, Underline buttons Click to apply the desired formatting to the selected text
7 Small Caps button Click to apply small caps formatting to the selected text
8 Superscript/Subscript buttons Click to apply superscript or subscript formatting to the selected text
9 Justification buttons Click the Left, Center, or Right Justification buttons to apply to your selection or the paragraph in which the cursor is resting.
10 Link button Select a reference or content and click to apply a link to the selection
11 Auto Link button Automatically creates links from all properly formatted Scripture references, Internet URLs, and local file addresses.
12 Insert Picture button Click to insert a picture in the User Tool. A window opens for choosing a picture on your computer. A prompt also appears for selecting the size of the picture. This procedure is the same as for User Notes.

Since font settings can be changed in a User Tool tab, certain standard display settings are used in the Edit window. As a result the text may not appear in the Edit window exactly as it does in the User Tool tab.

  • The Font pop-up menu lets you choose between the default Helvetica font and Helena, Yehudit, MSS, Sylvanus, Peshitta, Salaam, and Rosetta (transliteration) fonts.
  • In the Edit window, Roman text is always displayed in the Helvetica font. You can change the display font in the User Tool tab.
  • In the Edit window the default font size is 12 point. Selecting a smaller or larger size for some text scales the font in proportion to the current base font size in the User Tool tab
  • Use the toolbar at the top of the Edit window to format text, create links, or insert pictures in the same manner as for User Notes. You can also right-click and use the shortcut menu to format text, or access the same options via the Display menu.

User Tools can be saved in a few ways.

  • Use the Next (Next button) or Previous (Previous button) arrows to jump to the next article in the Edit window and save any changes made to the current article.
  • At the bottom of the Edit window, click Update.
  • In both cases a progress bar shows the time remaining to update the text.
  • Any open User Tool tabs are updated at the same time.
  • Click the red Close button () at the top left of the Edit window. A message appears asking if you want to save the User Tool.

You can make font style changes to an entire User Tool:

  1. Open a User Tool. The selected User Tool is opened in a new tab.
  2. On the Selection menu, choose Modify an Entire User Tool. The Modify an Entire User Tool dialog box opens.
  3. Set all text fonts to: Select a font to replace all non-original language text.
  4. Set all text sizes to: Select to normalize all font sizes in the selected User Note.
  5. Increase/decrease all text sizes by: Select to increase or decrease relative font sizes.
  6. Set all text colors to: Select to change all User Note fonts to selected color.
  7. Remove all text styling: Select to make plain text.
  8. Remove all superscript styles: Select to remove superscript styling.
  9. Remove all subscript styles: Select to remove subscript styling.
  10. Select the items to be modified, then click OK.