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If you are doing exhaustive research, one of the tools you might use in SwordSearcher is the Full Library Search (found on the search menu). This lets you find words in your entire library, including books and commentaries, with just a few clicks. Here I am going to show you a very small change in SwordSearcher 8.1 that makes it easier to review search results.

After a Full Library Search, you are presented with a list of entries in your library that contain what you are looking for, along with a preview of the first match in the entry, like this...

Please click here to read the full article and see the screen shots.

The new version 8.1 was released in March! Current users of SwordSearcher can read about upgrading here.

New Modules:

• J. C. Ryle's Expository Thoughts on the Gospels (4 vol. commentary) [RyleETG]
• Ellicott's Bible Commentary for English Readers (8 vol. commentary edited by Charles J. Ellicott) [Ellicott]
• Through the Bible Day by Day (7 vol. devotional commentary by F. B. Meyer) [MeyerTTB]

Improvements:

• By popular request, library tabs no longer change position to force the active tab to appear on the bottom row of tabs. (This is optional in preferences.)
• New StudyClick function: Ctrl-Clicking a module link (like from the Bible margin) loads the module entry in a clone panel instead of the main library panels.
• Added full support for Windows "High Contrast" mode.
• Added "+/-" buttons to Commentary and Book panels that appear when there are match highlights in the text, from Verse Guide, Topic Guide, and Library Searches.
• The following modules have been updated with corrections:
  • TSK and KJV-TSK, Web1913, ISBE, KJVSL, SGreek and SHebrew dictionaries, SRV, SRVSL, TR, WH.
• Added search results Verse List right-click popup menu copy option: Copy selected text including highlighting.
• Editor font list most-recently-used persists between editor loads in the same SwordSearcher session.
• Various enhancements to the following SwordSearcher features and tools:
  • Verse reference recognition.
  • Scan Text for Verse References tool.
  • Printer Page Setup (File menu).
  • High-DPI and Multi-DPI support improvements.
  • Bible Search Result Information and Statistics window.
  • Main search bar.
  • Bookmark system.
  • Forward/Back navigation handling.
  • Clone panel scroll position.
• Many additional optimizations and bug fixes. More details can be read here.

If you are using a version older than 8.0, be sure to watch the video that shows what's new in SwordSearcher 8.

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• If you're not sure what version of the Deluxe Library you have, go to the Help menu in SwordSearcher and select Check for Updates.
• If you don't see a tab for a library resource you are looking for, you can look for it by selecting File, Select Module. You can easily choose which library items have visible tabs by selecting Tabs, Select Which Tabs to Show.
• We've got lots of great videos showing various features in SwordSearcher. There are several how-to articles as well.