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MarkMyScriptures' pull down menus give you access to a variety of features. Most of these features can be accessed in other ways, but you may want to use the pull down menus until you are familiar with the program and its shortcuts. In addition, some information, and a few features can only be accessed through these menus, so you will need to be familiar with their use. To access these menus, follow the instructions below for your device type. Palm® users: Tap the screen where the document reference is displayed (example: Gen 1:1) OR tap the Palm® menu icon located in the Graffiti® area. (This icon is below the home icon.) CE® users: Tap the upper area of your screen, near or on the document reference area. This will access four of the five different pull down menus: Navigate, Edit, Doc, and Prefs. To access the fifth menu, called the Quick menu, tap the upside down arrow (CE users, the small box) next to the "V" button. To select a menu, tap it, and its function list will appear. Tap any menu function with your stylus to use that function. For example, if you select "Scroll" the text will then begin to scroll. Scripture Navigation: Reach references by selecting document, book, chapter and verse. These four navigation options have corresponding buttons (D,B,C,V) in the upper right hand corner of your screen. Tap a selection on each screen and you will see that reference. Or select just one option to change your current document, book, chapter, or verse. In a completely indexed document, such as a scripture file, each subsequent screen will come up automatically. For example, after selecting "Book" the "Chapter" screen will come up. In a partially indexed file, such as an MMSWeb Ensign file, after choosing the last possible index option you will be taken to your chosen document position. Non-indexed Doc Files: With non-indexed files only one navigation button (D) appears. You can create bookmarks to help navigate these documents, or use the scroll or search functions to find specific areas. Page down/up or scroll to read text. Document Screen
Functions
Book/Chapter/Verse Screen Functions
Basic
Underlining: Drag your stylus from left to right directly
through the text you wish to underline. Lift the stylus and a line will appear under the text.
Undo Underlines: Drag the stylus from right to left directly through any portion of the text you wish to UN-underline. This will undo the complete underline. Inserting Notes: Tap the text of your document to insert a note. A note dialog box will appear. Enter the note by writing in the Graffiti® area or by using the tap and select keyboard. Tap the" OK" button in the dialog box when you are done. A note icon will appear on the screen to show the location of your note. View/Edit
Notes: To view or to edit a note, tap the note icon.
You can add new text anywhere within the note by tapping the desired
insertion point in the note text with your stylus, and then entering the
additional information in the Graffiti® area. You can
highlight a block of text with your stylus within the note, and then do a
backspace in the Graffiti® area to remove text. Your note will be
saved in its current condition when you exit the dialog box. Cut/Paste: To cut and paste between notes, enter a note dialog box, select the text you wish to copy by highlighting it with your stylus. Then, and tap the pull-down menu area on your device. An edit menu will appear allowing you to undo, cut, copy, paste, or select all. Tap copy, and then tap "OK" on the current note. Go to the area you wish to paste to, and bring up the edit menu. Select paste. The copied text will be entered. A topical index lets you organize scripture references by subject, and makes them easy to access. Use this feature to organize scriptures and ideas for talks or lessons, or to enhance personal study. What is an Index? Indexes are for categorizing topics. They are broad subjects under which will be smaller groupings of references.
What is a Topic? A topic is a list of related scriptures and thoughts. It's main advantage is hyperlinked references. When you add a scripture to your topical list, you can re-visit that scripture just by selecting it from the list. It is similar to the bookmark feature, but it automatically uses the reference as its name. You can also add notes to the reference, thus keeping all your ideas in one place. To create a new Index follow these steps:
To create a new Topic follow these steps:
To add a Reference follow these steps:
Reference Screen Functions: when you enter a topic you will see a screen with the name of the topic, and a listing of all the references within that topic. You can do several things from this screen.
Adding more than one verse to a topical reference: Only one verse can be hyperlinked when adding a topical reference. However, if you would like to include more than one verse as part of your reference, you can do one of the following (though it will NOT be hyperlinked):
Start Scroll: To scroll text, select the scroll function from the Navigate or Quick Menu. Palm® users: you may also choose to start the scroll function by drawing an "S" in the Graffiti® area. The text will start to scroll and a speed indicator will appear at the top of your screen. Drag the short bar on the indicator to the left with your stylus to decrease the scroll speed, or to the right to increase scroll speed. Text may appear grainy at very high scroll speeds. End Scroll: Tap the screen once with your stylus to halt scrolling. Instead of scrolling, you may choose to page up or down by pressing the appropriate hardware button on your handheld device. Palm® users may also scroll up/down one line by drawing an up or down line in the Graffiti® area. One Stroke History Previous/Next: To go back to a previous position, draw a backward line (backspace) between the "D" button and the reference indicator at the top of your screen. To go forward, draw a forward line (space) in the same spot. Up to 30 position changes are remembered. This feature is helpful if you are reading in a class, and the teacher has everyone turn to a new reference, and then back to the previous reading. Instead of re-selecting book, chapter and verse, you can return to your former position with one stroke. This feature will move you back and forth between documents, as well as between different books/chapters of the same document. Menu History Previous/Next: The Quick menu contains the History Previous and History Next options. You can also choose to set your right/left hardware keys to history previous/next in the Preferences menu. Find (Look for/ Search) Function Keyword Search: Search your current document for keywords, by selecting the "Find" function from the Navigate or Quick menu. Palm® users: you may also start the find function by drawing an "L" in the Graffiti® area. Enter your search word in the Graffiti® area. The search is not case sensitive, or limiting, so entering a partial word is acceptable. For example, entering the word "mote" would return matches for "Mote", "mote", "smote", "motes" etc. Search Order: The default search method is searching from your current position to the end of the document. But you can choose "Search from beginning/End"-- to search from the beginning of the document to the end of it, "Wrap"-- to search from your current position, to the end of the document, then from the beginning of the document back to your position; "Reverse Search" -- to search from your current position back to the beginning of the document, or "Search Notes Instead"-- to search the text of your notes instead of the document text. The search will only look in the current document. You cannot search the entire Bible for a phrase, but must separately search the Old and New Testaments. Continue Searching: Click "Ok" in the search dialog to begin your search. The search will stop once the first instance of your key word is located. Go to the next instance of your keyword by choosing the "Find Next" function from the Navigate or Quick Menu. Return to the previous instance by choosing "Find Prev" from the Navigate or Quick menu. Palm users: you may choose to enter a space or a backspace, respectively in the Graffiti® area to use these functions. Searching for Marks or Notes: Choose the "Next Mark"/"Prev Mark" search functions from the Navigate or Quick menus. These functions will find the next underline or note in your current document. Inserting Bookmarks: Select the "Bookmark" function from the Navigate or Quick menu to insert a bookmark. A bookmark does not leave an icon on your screen. It is a memory marker of the page you are currently on. Give your bookmarks evocative names. For instance, enter a short reference name, such as "Gen 3:"1 or name your bookmark "Personal Study", whatever will best describe what you are marking. In either case, a bookmark inserted at Genesis 3:1 will return you to that position.
Change your font by selecting the "Font" function from the Navigate or Quick menu. A screen of possible fonts will appear. Select the font you want, and your document will appear in that font type. Moving Documents to a Memory Card Move files from main memory to a memory card: Select the "Move Doc to Card" option from the Doc menu. The document you are currently in will be moved to your storage card. A small marks management file must remain in main memory for each document. Using the "Move Doc to Card" option leaves this small file in place while moving the bulk of your file to the correct directory for MarkMyScriptures access. Therefore it is best to install your files to main memory and move them in this manner rather than installing them directly to a memory card. To move files back to your device: select the "Move Doc to Device" function from the Doc menu. Important Note: The MarkMyScriptures program file must remain in main memory. Only your document files can be stored on a memory card. Most of the preference settings are self explanatory. The first part of the list lets you select how to back up your files. You may select or unselect the following: Backup current doc/idx
file Backing up large doc files takes time when you are synchronizing your handheld device. You may want to only back up your files and indexes occasionally, as the original files should still be saved on your PC from the first download, or from when you created them. Marks are always backed up, so you do not need to check a preference for this. The remaining settings may vary by device. For instance, if your device does not support high resolution, you may not check that option. Or, if you do not have the complete scriptures, downloaded through MMSWeb, the footnote preferences do nothing. You may select or unselect the following: Show Scrollbar in scriptures-- shows a document scroll bar to the side of
the text. Takes up room on your document screen so less text can fit, but
some people prefer it for reading. Exporting Marks and Topics to Your PC View Marks and Topics with your Desktop software: MarkMyScriptures cannot be viewed from your PC. However, notes, marks, and topical indexes are backed up to your PC in case of data loss. In addition, you can export your notes, underlines, and topics files to the "memo" function of your handheld. These items will then be available on your PC as part of your device's desktop. From there you can copy these files to another format if you wish. To export your marks to a memo, select the "Export marks to memo " option in the Doc menu. This will send ALL of your notes and underlines for your current document to a memo file. The memo category they will be assigned to is "unfiled." To export your topics to a memo, select the "topics" function from the Navigate or Quick menu. On the main topics screen, tap the word "topic" in the upper left hand corner. Select "export to memo." This will send your current index and all its topics to a memo file. The memo category they will be assigned to is "unfiled". To copy a block of text: Tap your pull down menu area and choose the " Edit" menu. Tap "Sel text for Clipboard." Drag stylus over the text you wish to copy. The text is then in your device clipboard. You can paste it to a note, to a memo, or to any other area where paste is an option. What else can you read with MarkMyScriptures? MarkMyScriptures can read any non-proprietary document in DOC format. If the file is in the proper format it will appear in your document list. Files for a specific reader, downloaded from other sites or companies may not work with MarkMyScriptures. These documents have special coding so they work only with a certain reader to prevent unauthorized file transfer. Documents from other companies that can be read with MarkMyScriptures will not have the same navigation. Skimware files, such as MMSWeb and scripture files, have embedded tags which make the D/B/C/V navigation possible. Other files will have only the "D" function, and must be navigated by a document scroll bar. However, the scroll, search, notes, and underline functions are available for non-indexed documents as well as the scripture files. Create your own files: You can create your own indexed documents for MarkMyScriptures using the Make File utility which is part of MMSWeb. For more information on this utility, click here.
Backup/Restore MarkMyScriptures, Notes, Marks, and Topics Lost files: If you have lost your MarkMyScriptures, MMSWeb or scripture files you can re-download them from the Downloads page of our website. There is never a charge to download. Enter your registration code to reactivate your registered status. Backup Palm: Your notes, marks, and topics are automatically backed up when you hotsync. If you do not hotsync regularly and lose battery power or have corrupted files whatever is not backed up is lost. To protect notes, marks and topics when installing new files, or to re-install them after a data loss, do the following:
Backup CE: No MarkMyScriptures files, including marks, notes, topics and documents are backed up when you Activesync. To protect your data, download and install the free CE Backup Utility and run it regularly with your device attached to the computer to back up files. In case of data loss, simply use the Restore function in the utility to reinstall your notes, marks and topics.
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