Define Ranges

Defining a search range is helpful for limiting your search. Familiarize yourself with the task and principles behind limiting a search, to take full advantage of Accordance's search capabilities.

For this procedure, replace the parameters in bold green text with those that meet your search criteria.

  1. Open a Search tabClosed The core tab used to search Bible texts, it consists of a search entry area and a search results area and set it to search for Words.
  2. On the Search Range pop-up menu choose Define Ranges. The Define Ranges dialog box appears.
  3. You can also right-click anywhere on the gray portion of the Search Entry area and choose Set Range to>Define Range from the pop-up menu.
  4. An example of the Define Ranges dialog box is shown below.

  6. In the Define Ranges dialog box, proceed as follows:
  7. Click New. The phrase "new range name" appears in the list of ranges, "new range name" and "new range definition" are entered in the Name and Definition boxes, respectively.
  8. Enter Joseph in the Name box and press Tab.
  9. Enter a definition such as Gen 30:22-25; 37, 39-48, 50 in the Definition box, and click New again. This verifies the range you just created and lets you create another range.
  10. Enter Creation in the Name box, and enter Gen 1-3 in the Definition box.
  11. Click Verify to create the range without adding a new one.
  12. To organize the list of names, proceed as follows:
  13. Select the defined range (such as Creation or Joseph). The name is displayed in the Name box.
  14. In the Name box, add two spaces before the name of the defined range.
  15. Use the Up or Down buttons to move the defined ranges to the desired position in the list.

  16. Click Update and return to the Search tab. The Search Range pop-up menu might look something like this:

You can now limit searches to any of these ranges by selecting the range from the Search Range pop-up menu.