While Verbum can be used "out of the box" without any customization, the Program Settings area provides options for customizing different parts of the software to best meet your requirements. These settings affect the behavior of Verbum as a whole, rather than individual books or tools.
When you change a setting, it takes effect immediately apart for those cases (such as changing the display language) where a restart of the application is required. Most of the settings are Yes/No toggles that take instant effect. You do not need to save the changes, but a restart is required for some changes to take effect (e.g. changing the language). For more information on any setting, hover your cursor to the right of the option and then hover it over the help icon that appears.
You can easily customize your settings. The quickest way to do this is by clicking the toolbar's three vertical dots icon .
Some of the most frequently changed settings are described below.
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Application Toolbar Location allows you to choose whether you want the application toolbar displayed on the left or on the top of the screen. This does require a Premium subscription or higher.
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At Startup Open to allows you to set what view displays when you open Verbum, whether to the Dashboard, a blank layout, or a layout of your choice.
See the article on Layouts for more information.
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Citation Style allows you to select a bibliographic citation style from among the available options (APA, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, Turabian, etc.).
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Language determines the language of the program’s menus, interface, and so on. You must restart Verbum to implement any change.
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Note: This will change the system language, not languages within books.
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Show options (such as Show Information Tool Tips and Show Visual Cues) allow you to customize the way Verbum displays information and notifications within the program.
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Note: With Visual Cues enabled, an orange ring flashes when you open a book to indicate the current location in that book.
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Show Keyboard Selector determines whether or not a button is displayed to allow easy switching to Greek or Hebrew keyboards
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Show Help Cards determines if help cards are shown when opening a panel for the first three times (the Reset option allows this count to be reset and go back to the fresh installation state)
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Suggest Latin Lemmas enables auto-complete options for Latin lemmas
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Suggest Transliterated Lemmas enables auto-complete options for transliterated lemmas (note: this is only used by BIblia Hebraica transcripta and related books)
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Prefer Local Data controls whether or not, locally held resources are used to populate appropriate sections (such as Commentaries) of the Factbook and Insights panels. Online-only sections will always populate using online data.
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Content Scaling affects the size of the text in all resources.
To adjust the text size within a specific resource, open that resource, select the View tab, and adjust the Zoom settings.
Program Scaling changes the text, button, and menu size across the entire program.
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Resource Panel Background adjusts the shade and color of the background in resources only.
If you want new books or software and dataset updates to be delivered automatically, set AutomaticallyStart Downloads to Yes and set both Download Between options to be Midnight.
If you want updates to be delivered automatically but only between certain times, adjust the start and stop times.
If you want to totally control when software and dataset updates happen, set Automatically Start Downloads to No.
With this setting, if you wish to apply software updates when they become available you will need to enter the command update now into the Command box, and select that option.
If you have Download New Books set to Yes, new and updated books will be delivered as they become available. If you set that to No, the books will appear in your Library but will need to be manually downloaded to your computer if required.
For more information on Cloud Books and manual book downloads, see this article.
Show Community Ratings controls whether or not your Library books will display ratings provided by the wider user community.
Show Community Tags controls whether or not your Library books will display tags provided by the wider user community.
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Note: The Encyclopedia tag shown in both cases above is the Verbum categorization of the book and will always be present.
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Adjust the font and spacing settings to change how books are laid out and text is shown (except for text size — see Accessibility above)
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Prefer Minimized Toolbars - with this set to Yes, the secondary resource toolbar will stay collapsed until you expand it, and automatically collapse when the panel is no longer active
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Double-Click and Triple-Click Action settings allow the user to modify what happens when they either double-click or triple-click a word. Options are Look up, Search, Search Inline or Select Word
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Text Selection determines text selection behavior
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Show Selection Menu controls whether or not the Selection Menu is shown when selecting text
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Prefer Lemmas determines whether the underlying lemma or the translated word in reverse interlinear Bibles is used when performing Look Up and Search on Double/Triple Click and other times
Adjust these settings to change the way Verbum transliterates Greek, Hebrew, and Syriac. Transliteration is when a word from one language is written using the closest corresponding letters of another language.
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Enable Hardware Acceleration is a Windows-only setting and can be helpful to address some video issues and to enhance performance.
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Enable Logging allows you to capture errors with Verbum and submit them for support. The Open Folder link takes you to the folder containing the log files.
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Note: For more help, see our help article on enabling and submitting log files.
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You can hide books you do not want to appear in your library.
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Note: This does not delete the books and it is different from removing books from your local library using Cloud Books.
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Contact Customer Support if you want to return a purchased book.