Verbum lets you create a variety of documents to support your Bible study—Sermons, Reading Plans, Prayer Lists, Passage Lists, Canvases, and more. Think of them as your personal research tools: you can create new ones, find and open existing ones, edit or delete them, and share them with others in Verbum. How you access and manage your documents depends on your platform—select a tab below to get started.
Desktop
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Note: This feature is available to all users.
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To open the Documents Menu in its own window, click the Documents icon in your main toolbar. To open the Documents Menu in a docked panel, right-click the Documents icon
and select Open in a new tab from the options.
To create any type of document from the Documents Menu, click the New button in the toolbar. Choose from the following document types:
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Note: Several of these document types can also be created from other areas within Logos. Click the Learn more links to discover additional ways to access these documents.
Create an outline for a Bible study, and then generate and insert thoughtful questions directly into your document.
Create a list of resources suitable for publications, classes, sermons, etc. based on a variety of Logos milestones. Multiple formats are available.
Create an interactive visual with the selected text by capturing, organizing, and sharing your thoughts on any passage of any resource in your library.
Collect section(s) of a single resource or multiple resources under a single heading (For example, “C.S. Lewis quotes.”).
Build complex morphological queries using a point-and-click interface. The Morph Query document provides several capabilities not available in the regular Morph Search.
Use a template to record prayer requests and set the frequency for praying for the items on the list.
Create a plan to read a resource in your library. Available options include the amount of text to read, the frequency of reading, a target date for completion, and whether you want to do this by yourself or with one of your groups.
Search the grammatical structure of the Hebrew Bible, Greek New Testament, or Septuagint using search templates or create your own search from scratch.
Create a filter using search terms and/or morphologies. When applied to an open resources Logos highlights all matching search results with your select style.
Create a puzzle based on a selected passage of Scripture. You can either solve the puzzle in Logos or export/print a copy by clicking the More Actions Menu icon .
Save, import, and organize lists of words from references, resources, search results, and passage lists.
The Documents Menu gives you several ways to sort and find your documents. Once you have found your document, click the line to select it or click the document name to open the document.
If you know the name (or partial name) of the document you're looking for, simply begin typing the name into the Find Box in the toolbar and select your document when it appears.
Click the Name, Type, and Date headings to sort by respective ascending or descending order. For example, clicking the Type heading once sorts the documents by type alphabetically, clicking it twice sorts them in reverse alphabetical order, and clicking it a third time returns to the default order.
The Documents Menu features a Sidebar with a variety of filters that can help you find a document when you're unsure of its name. Click the Sidebar icon in the toolbar to reveal the filters and select as many filters as you'd like to narrow your search.
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Note: Available filters vary depending on whether you have selected Yours, Groups, or Public.
View documents depending on who owns them.
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Yours: Documents you have created or added to your installation.
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Groups: Documents shared between you and your Faithlife groups.
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Public: Documents created and shared by other Logos users.
Learn more about sharing documents in this section.
Each document you create includes metadata, some of which you can edit. To view and edit this metadata, select a document by clicking the line (do not click the document name) and clicking the Info button in the toolbar. This opens the Info Panel, where you can add a description or tags, preview, share, duplicate, or delete the document.
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Note: Clicking Preview opens a document preview at documents.logos.com. Some document types, such as Visual filters and Collections, display a blank page in Preview mode.
If you'd like to edit the document itself, simply click the document name to open the document in its respective Logos tool. For instance, clicking the name of a Sermon Document opens that document in the Sermon Builder tool, where you have full editing access to the document content.
Click Trash at the bottom of the Sidebar menu.
Logos directs you to documents.logos.com which displays all of your Logos documents that have been synced with Faithlife's servers. Toggle the document filter to Deleted (the default option is Available).
Hover over a document and click Undelete to restore the document to your local installation.
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Select your document.
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Documents and select the document you wish to share by clicking the document line. Once you select a document,
Share changes from inactive to active.
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Note: Clicking the document name opens the document in a new panel.
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Share your document.
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To make the document public, click the radio slider to change the answer from No to Yes. This generates a link that can be copied and shared or embedded in another application. Once you make a document public, any Logos user is able to find, view, and access your document through the Public tab.
To share the document with a group, click the Group tab. Expand the menu and select the group you wish to share your document with. If you want other group members to be able to edit this document, check Collaborate.
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Click Done.
Logos makes your document available to others.
The Share button also allows you to change the sharing options for a document that you have previously shared.
To unshare a document with a Group:
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Select the document you want to unshare.
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Change Group access.
Click Change sharing. Uncheck the group you wish to un-share the document with.
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Click Done.
The document is no longer available to group members.
To unshare a Public document:
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Select the document you want to unshare.
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Change Public access.
Under the Public tab, click the radio slider from Yes to No.
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Click Done.
The document is no longer available to other users.
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Note: If another user creates a duplicate of your document, the duplicate is now owned by that user and is not deleted from their installation when you unshare your document.
You can access documents shared by other users and add them to your local installation.
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Note: Documents created using features and/or resources not included in your Logos collection are visible but not accessible to you.
Find the document you'd like to add in the Public or Groups tab. Select a document (do not click the document name) and click Add to your docs. Logos adds the document to your installation.
Mobile
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To find your documents in the mobile app, open the Study tab and then open the Notes & Documents section. This shows the different types of documents you can access in the mobile app.
To create a new document, tap the section containing documents of that type, and tap the the Plus icon in the top right corner.
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Note: For some document types, such as Sermons, while you can view them on a mobile phone you need a tablet to create or modify them.
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To find an existing document of a particular type, tap the section containing documents of that type. You can enter a search string in the Search box to just show documents whose names include that search string.
To edit an existing document of a particular type, tap the section containing documents of that type. Select the document you'd like to edit to open it in a new tab, where you can edit its content.
To share a document publicly or with a Faithlife group from within Logos itself, open the Logos desktop app or open Logos in a web browser. You can share Logos documents from a mobile device by navigating to documents.logos.com in a web browser. See this article for more details on sharing documents.
Web
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Note: This feature is available to all users.
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To open the Documents Menu in its own window, click the Tools icon in your main toolbar and then select the Documents option
from the menu.
To create any type of document (supported in the web app) from the Documents Menu, click the New button in the toolbar. Choose from the following document types:
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Note: Several of these document types can also be created from other areas within Logos. Click the Learn more links to discover additional ways to access these documents.
Create an outline for a Bible study, and then generate and insert thoughtful questions directly into your document.
Create an interactive visual with the selected text by capturing, organizing, and sharing your thoughts on any passage of any resource in your library.
Create a plan to read a resource in your library. Available options include the amount of text to read, the frequency of reading, a target date for completion, and whether you want to do this by yourself or with one of your groups.
The Documents Menu gives you several ways to sort and find your documents. Once you have found your document, click the line to select it or click the document name to open the document.
If you know the name (or partial name) of the document you're looking for, simply begin typing the name into the Find Box in the toolbar and select your document when it appears.
Click any of the headings to sort by respective ascending or descending order. For example, clicking the Type heading once sorts the documents by type alphabetically, clicking it twice sorts them in reverse alphabetical order, and clicking it a third time returns to the default order.
To edit the contents of the document, simply click the document name to open the document in its respective Logos tool. For instance, clicking the name of a Sermon Document opens that document in the Sermon Builder tool, where you have full editing access to the document content.
To share a document, hover your cursor over the document, click the three vertical dots icon that appears on the right and select the Share option.
Logos opens a dialog box of sharing options
To share the document with a group, select the Share with groups option.
Expand the Choose a group box and choose the group you want to share the document in and if you want other group members to be able to edit this document, check the Collaborate option.
You can also copy the link and then forward that link to anyone you want to share the document with. You can, optionally, also make it visible as a Public document which will be viewable by anyone. Click Done when you have selected the options you want.
To share the document generally, select the Anyone with the link option, copy the link and then forward that link to anyone you want to share the document with. You can, optionally, also make it visible as a Public document which will be viewable by anyone. Click Done when you have selected the options you want.
The Share button also allows you to change the sharing options for a document that you have previously shared.
To unshare a document with a Group:
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Select the sharing option for the document you want to unshare.
Hover your cursor over the document, click the three vertical dots icon that appears on the right and select the Share option.
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End collaboration if required
If you had previously enabled collaboration, you need to end that before unsharing the document.
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Stop sharing
If you don't have collaboration enabled, unselect the group you are sharing the document with and click Done.
To unshare a Public document:
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Select the sharing option for the document you want to unshare.
Hover your cursor over the document, click the three vertical dots icon that appears on the right and select the Share option.
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Change from Public to Private access.
Select the Private option to stop sharing the document and click Done.
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Note: If another user creates a duplicate of your document, the duplicate is now owned by that user and is not deleted from their installation when you unshare your document.