Q-WordSpeak 3.0 Changes

Q-WordSpeak 3.0 has undergone some very significant changes since the release of Q-WordSpeak 2.2 over two years ago. It is now easier to use and has many new features. Dozens of new Bible translations are supported, as well as many well known Bible Commentaries and Bible Dictionaries. Printing out scriptures for Bible study has been improved with new easy to use print styles and added support for Microsoft Word. For those of you upgrading to Q-WordSpeak 3.0 from an earlier version of Q-WordSpeak, a partial list of changes is listed below.

1. New World Translation

Q-WordSpeak can now work with the newest 2003 and 2004 versions of the Watchtower Library CD to access the New World Translation. In addition, improvements were made to the Bible – New World Translation - Optimize Chapters menu function. If you could not get this feature to work previously, it should now work fine! (The “Display Verses Only” option in the Watchtower Library Bible window is now set in a more foolproof manner. This menu choice has also been renamed to "Bible - New World Translation - Import Chapters from WT Library".)

2. New Microsoft Office 2003 Look. 

Q-WordSpeak 3.0 has been designed to be easy to use and similar to the latest look of Microsoft Office 2003. This look has been applied to all the menus, toolbars, and other user interface features of Q-WordSpeak.

Many other Q-WordSpeak “Looks” are also possible. See Customizing Q-WordSpeak which shows how to change the overall look and feel of menus, toolbars and dialogs.

4. Toolbars. There have been a number of changes to the toolbars used in Q-WordSpeak:

The default arrangement of Toolbars has been changed to make the screen less cluttered.

Toolbars relating to Editor Documents have been moved to inside the Editor Document window. This includes the Fonts, Paragraph and Table Toolbars. The Headings toolbar, which contained a Heading combo box and a Select next heading button, has been removed.  The Headings combo box has been changed into a Styles button (looks like a large “H”), and has been added to the Paragraph toolbar. Click on the Styles button to switch paragraph heading styles. A Citations toolbar has also been added to the Editor window to help with inserted Citation Fields.

The Bible and Browser toolbars have also been moved into their respective windows.

5. The Outlook Bar functions are now located in the Task Panes described above.

Gospel Parallels are now displayed by clicking on the Gospel Parallels task in the Bible Actions task pane. This will display a list of both the Gospel Parallels and the Gospel Parallels Combined. Click on an item in the list to display the corresponding verse text for the Gospel Parallel. The verses are displayed in a View at the bottom of Q-WordSpeak. The window is displayed with a “Gospel Parallels” toolbar that allows you to quickly select which Bible(s) to get the verse text from, and to expand and contract the citations.

The verses in the gospel parallels are now automatically “expanded” to show the actual verse text. Previously you had to select the “Expand all Citation fields” command to show the verses, and this was not very obvious to many people. There might be a slight delay while the verses are being expanded before you actually see them.

Browser Favorites are now displayed by clicking on the New From Favorites task in the Browser Actions task pane. This will display a list your favorite web pages. Click on an item in the list to display a new Browser window containing the corresponding web page.

6. Bible and Browser Panes and Views have undergone some major changes and enhancements.

Bible Panes and Browser Panes have been eliminated. They are replaced by Bible and Browser “Windows” which display as tabbed windows on top of the Editor View area. They are created by selecting New Bible Window or New Web Browser Window from the File menu. They can also be created by selecting the corresponding tasks from the Bible, Browser and Home task panes. Note: Bible and Browser “panes” are now called “Windows”. Only the Task Pane uses the term “pane”.

Bible Translations – Support for over fifty different Bible translations which can be viewed and compared with each other.

Up to 20 Bible and Browser windows may be created. There is no longer a limit of five.

When creating a new Bible Window, you can now enter the exact verses to display. This replaces the old method of displaying the default chapter of Genesis chapter one, which was not very useful.

The title or caption area of Bible Windows now display the citations for the verses actually displayed. For example: “Hebrews 1:6-8” rather than “Bible Window 1”...

When displaying a new Bible Window, a default style and a default selection of Bibles is used. If no default selection of Bibles exists, the Bible Selection dialog displays so you can select which Bibles to display.

Whenever you change the display style or the selected Bibles for a particular Bible Window the new settings become the default settings for future new Bible Windows.

New Bible and Browser Windows are all positioned near the top of Q-WordSpeak. If multiple Windows are displayed at the same time, they are contained in “Tabbed Windows”, which have bottom tabs that can be clicked to display the corresponding window.

You can also rearrange the order of the tabs by selecting a tab and then dragging it to the left or right.

Right click the mouse anywhere inside the Bible window to display the Bible context menu. This provides quick access to common Bible window features

Bible Views now contain their own Bible Window Toolbar.


 

7. Major Enhancements to the “Find Bible Words” Dialog

See Searching the Bible for Words and Phrases for details.

8. Support for e-Sword^® Modules

e-Sword^® is a free Bible program that contains many Bibles, Commentaries and Dictionaries, some of which are not directly included in Q-WordSpeak. Q-WordSpeak is able to display these publications if you have e-Sword^® installed on your computer. (See e-Sword^® Support in the Bible menu.) You can download the e-Sword^® program and its publications from: www.e-sword.net.

9. Bible Commentaries

Q-WordSpeak now supports over twenty Bible Commentaries that contain comments on a particular Bible verse. See Bible Commentaries for details.

10. Bible Dictionaries

Q-WordSpeak now supports over a dozen Bible Dictionaries that offer comments on a particular Bible topic. See Bible Dictionaries for details.

11. The “Citations Dialog” has been enhanced:

Old “Citations” Dialog



New Optional “Citations” Dialog

The quest for the perfect method of selecting Bible book, chapter, and verses is an issue Q-Software continues to explore. A new “Citations Dialog” improves the ease and speed of selecting Bible citations. To use the new Citations dialog, select “Use Optional Citations Dialog” from the Bible menu.

12. Printing Verses for Bible Study has been simplified and enhanced!

Old Dialog



New Dialog

The Save and Autosave buttons have been removed. Autosave is now the default and saves everything after each citation field has been completed.

The Styles selection list has been removed, since it is viewable when clicking the Print and Preview button.

 The Clear All button has been renamed to Clear Fields and, when clicked, asks if you really want to clear all citation fields.

The Preview Collected Verses button has been renamed Print and Preview.

The Open button has been renamed History since it displays a history of previous Collect Verses files.

The Close button has been renamed Done.

13. The “Print and Preview” (Bible Verses) dialog has been simplified.

Old Dialog

New Dialog

The Print button no longer displays a menu with Print, Preview and Page Setup items. Clicking the Print button now immediately prints out the Bible Study Verses. The printer margins and orientation are automatically set to the correct values. It is no longer necessary to manually set these values using the Page Setup dialog! This is done automatically for you! (Note: This uses and requires advanced features available only in Internet Explorer 5.5 and above.)

A “Preview” button has been added to preview how Bible Study Verses will print on your printer.

An MS-Word button has been added. This button opens the Bible Study Verses inside Microsoft Word, if you have Microsoft Word version 2000 or newer installed. You can then use Microsoft Word to further format the verses and print them. For example, once inside Microsoft Word, you might display the Microsoft Word Format menu and then select Columns to change the number of columns.

The Copy button has been removed to simplify the dialog. You can still do a “Copy” by right clicking on the Bible text window, selecting Select All, then right click again and select Copy.

The term “Collect Verses” has been replaced with “Bible Study Verses” in all menus and dialogs. Note the dialog caption above.

The title (ex. “Reflect the Mental Attitude of Christ”) is now only displayed in the first table or page of verses.

A number of buttons have been moved, renamed, or deleted to simplify the overall appearance.

Many default display (print) styles have been created for your convenience. Please see the document Print Verses for Bible Study for pictures and details of the new styles.

The Formats and Tables buttons have been replaced with a new Bible Study Verses Options button. Clicking on this button displays the following dialog which allows complete control over how collected verses should be displayed and printed.

14. Useful Print Styles for Printing Verses for Bible Study

Q-WordSpeak comes with a variety of default display styles. You can easily select one using the Bible Verses (“Print and Preview”) dialog.

_Default Portrait. This is the default display style when you run Q-WordSpeak for the first time. Two columns are displayed vertically. Several variations are included with different colors, backgrounds and text sizes. The variations all have names beginning with “_Default Portrait”. For example, “_Default Portrait Beige” and “_Default Portrait Text Size Large”.

_Default Landscape. Four columns are displayed horizontally. The printed page can be folded in half to show two vertical columns on each half page.

_Default Two Tables. This style features two tables of verses, side by side with two columns per table. The printout is designed to be folded in half so that it fits nicely inside a book or magazine, and is very useful!

_Default No Tables. This style is a very simple style without tables or multiple columns. This style is likely the most compatible with other software programs.

_Default Simple Table. This style is similar to “_Default No Tables” but displays the results in a simple one column table.

 15. Bible Verses Options Dialog

A new dialog has been created to make it easy to change all aspects of how Bible Study Verses are displayed and printed. Previous to this new dialog, changing how Bible Study Verses were displayed involved several dialogs and menus which were not obvious to most people

It is no longer necessary to manually figure out table sizes to fit paper orientation and margins. Now you simply select the orientation (portrait or landscape) and the number of tables per page.



Above: Old way of setting a partial number of options for Bible Study Verses. Note that this had to be done through the “Table” dialog.



New “Bible Study Verses Options” dialog. It sets all display options for Bible Study Verses.

This dialog makes it easy to change how Bible Study verses are displayed and printed. It is no longer necessary to manually figure out table sizes to fit paper orientation and margins. Now you simply select the orientation (portrait or landscape) and the number of tables per page.