How to put KJV
into MS Word

 

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Files for king-james-bible-pure-cambridge-edition-word
& download:
King-James-Bible--Pure-Cambridge-Edition(Word).doc
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The above Bible file is an old MS Word file.
So you’ll need MS Word to open it.

However, I find that it opens even with MS Word 2002.

I have MS Word 2002 on my old, standalone (i.e. not connected to internet),
Windows XP operating system, desktop PC.

,,        ,,        It has no antivirus etc
,,        ,,        but I keep it safe by scanning the memory stick
,,        ,,        whenever I move files to it (such as the above file)
,,        ,,        from my online PC, which does have antivirus etc.

,,        ,,        (New MS Word seems to be less intuitive than Old MS Word,
,,        ,,        less keyboard friendly, more insistent on mouse use,
,,        ,,        and less compatible with other programmes.)

 
Anyway, I give the following instructions
as if you too are using MS Word 2002.

(With new MS Word I wouldn’t know where to start.
It looks very difficult, perhaps even impossible for all I know.)

 

The following reformatting may take you an hour or so
but I reckon it’s well worth it.

        Resize this browser window
        (browser = Chrome, Edge, etc)
        to be:
        the full height of your screen
        and a centimetre wider than this column.

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Open the KJV Bible file in MS Word.

        Put the MS Word window
        next to this browser window.

        Make the MS Word window
        the same height & width
        as this browser window.

        At the top of the MS Word window
        right click on the menu bar.
        Open the  Standard  and  Formatting  toolbars
        if they’re not already on view.

        Make   View  /  Zoom   to be 100%
        if it isn’t already.
        Keep it that way.

        Go to   View   then click on   Web Layout.

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DELETE SECTION BREAKS & HEADERS:

        Go to beginning of the document 
        if you’re not there already
        (hold down Ctrl key, tap Home key).

        Click on the    button (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
        thus revealing all the paragraph marks & tab marks.

        Use   Edit   &   Replace
        &   More   &   Special   &   Replace All
        in order to replace:
                 every   Section Break
                 (there’s 134 of them)
        with:
                 nothing
                 (i.e. leave the box empty).

                 Close the  Find and Replace  box.

        Click on  View  then  Header and Footer
        and delete the word REVELATION.

        Click anywhere in the document
        to reveal the floating header-and-footer bar.
        Close it.

        Save.

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DELETE HEADINGS
OF BOOKS OF THE BIBLE:

        Go to beginning of the document 
        if you’re not there already
        (hold down Ctrl key, tap Home key).
 
        Using   Edit   &   Find,
        with   Match case  ticked,
        slowly go through the document
        finding each:  
                 THE letter space 

        This will locate each heading of a book of the Bible.

        Delete the whole heading
        but keep the paragraph mark at the end.

,,        ,,        Don’t worry.  Individual mini-headings, for each chapter, will be made
,,        ,,        and will show which book of the Bible you’re in.


 
                 For example, change:

THE FIRST BOOK OF MOSES,
CALLED
GENESIS.

                 to:



        Go through the whole document doing this
        to every heading of a book of the Bible.

        Save.

,,             ,,             Tip: Hold  Alt key  (with left thumb)
,,             ,,             and tap the  Tab key  (with left middle-finger).

,,             ,,             This toggles through the windows
,,             ,,             while leaving your right hand free for the mouse.

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CONTENTS LIST & KEYS:

        Go to   View   then click on   Web Layout.

        Go to beginning of the document 
        if you’re not there already
        (hold down Ctrl key, tap Home key).

        Select/highlint the contents’ list etc
        down to, and including,
        the word  CALLED.

        Cut & paste all of this
        into a Notepad file.

        Cut & paste it again,
        from the Notepad file,
        into a new MS Word file.

        Name the new MS Word file  Contents.

        Make its   View   to be   Web Layout   too.

In this new Contents file:

        Click on the    button (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
        thus revealing all the paragraph marks & tab marks.

        Using  Edit  and  Replace 
        and  More  and  Special  and  Replace All 
        (also have   Search Options box  showing Down):
                 replace, all in one go, every:
                         Paragraph Mark  
                with a:
                            Manual Line Break.

        Edit all excess words
        and
        add keys
        (see: List of abbreviations of books of the Bible)
        such that the contents of the Contents file
        looks something like:

                 ’  ’  ’  ’  ’  ’  ’  Chaps8
                 Genesis  ’ ’ Gen ’ ’ 508
                 Exodus  ’ ’ Exo ’ ’ 408
                 Leviticus’ ’ Lev  ’ ’ 278
                 Numbers’ ’ Num ’ ’ 368
                 Etc
                 Etc

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        N.B. Dots are letter spaces.
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        (Space bar, on keyboard, makes them.)

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        Straight arrows are tab marks.
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        (The tab key, on the keyboard, makes them.)

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        Bent arrows are manual line breaks.
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        (Hold Shift key, and press Enter key, to make them.)


        Needless to say, you’ll be cutting & pasting
        the contents of this  Contents  file,
        back into the beginning of the Bible file,
        later.

        Save.

        Leave this  Contents  file open,
        you’ll be needing to read it shortly.

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MOVE EVERYTHING LEFT:

In both files:

        Highlight all text
        by holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  A  key.

        Take hands off keyboard.

        Move all text to left
        by holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  L  key.

        Save.

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HOMOGENISE TEXT:

Google Are serif fonts more readable
to help you decide which font to use.
Personally I prefer: dark on pale, Times New Roman:
pale on dark, (Helvetica or) Arial.

Also make all text the same size,
perhaps larger rather than smaller,
because the fastest way to read text
is as a narrow column: like a newspaper column.

In both MS Word files:

        Highlight all text
        by holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  A  key.

        Click on  Format

        Click on  Font

        Highlight  Times New Roman   (or a font of your choice)
        Click   Size:  as 16pt   (or a size of your choice)

        Click OK

        Save.

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GET RID OF PILCROWS:

Pilcrows are those annoying paragraph marks
that aren’t real paragraph marks, 
hence they show even when the  Show/Hide  button is off.

In the Bible file
(but not in the Contents file)
do the following:

        Turn off the    button  (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
        so as to hide all the real paragraph marks.

        Turn on the  Num Lock  key.

         Make the  Edit  then  Replace  dialogue box appear:

        Delete whatever’s in the   Find what   space.

        Delete whatever’s in the   Replace with   space.

        Click in the   Find what   space

                while holding down the shift key, type:
                         using the long row of number keys
                        at top of the keyboard,
                the number  6 

                release shift key

                continue typing
                 in the   Find what   space:
                         using any
                         of the numbers’ keys
                         on the keyboard,
                the numbers   0 1 8 2 

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        Hence, in the  Find what  space,
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        you should now have   ^0182  

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        (182 is the ANCII (decimal) character code for a Pilcrow
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        as shown by  Insert  then  Symbol.)


                 Make sure the   Replace with   space is empty.

                 Click on the   Replace All   button.

                 Close the   Find and Replace   dialogue box.

                 Press the   Num Lock   key again, to turn it off.

        Save.

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MAKE EACH CHAPTER EASY TO FIND:

        Use   Edit   &   Replace
        &   More   &   Special   &   Replace All
        in order to:

                 replace:
                         every   full stop & paragraph mark  
                 with:
                         a   full stop

                 replace:
                         every   comma & paragraph mark   
                 with:
                         a   comma

                 replace:
                         every   semi-colon & paragraph mark   
                 with:
                         a   semi-colon

        Save.

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MAKE INIDIVIDUAL CHAPTER MINI-HEADINGS:

        Your MS Word window is a little wider than this column.
        Now make it half the height too.

        Go to beginning of the Bible document 
        if you’re not there already
        (hold down Ctrl key, tap Home key).

        As you’ve deleted all the books-of-the-Bible headings
        you’ll need to have the Contents file open
        to keep track of where you are.

        Use   Edit   &   Replace   to make the 
            Find and Replace   dialogue box appear.

        Move it to a clear space on your desktop.

        In it, use   More   &   Match case   &   Special 
        to do the following:

            Tick   Match case.

            Make sure   Search Options   shows   Down.

            Starting at the beginning of the Bible document,
                     use the   Replace   button
                     (not the   Replace All   button)
            to replace,
            one item at a time:
                     CHAPTER letter space
            with:
                     ^p Gen letter space c no letter space 


                                    ^p   is a   Paragraph Mark. 



,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        Rather than repeatedly clicking on  Replace
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        perhaps repeatedly tap the space bar instead.

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        When you see the chapter numbers suddenly go down
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        you’ll know you’ve overshot.  Fix by using the  Undo  button.

            When you get to EXODUS, go back a few lines,
            then replace,
            one item at a time:
                     CHAPTER letter space
            with:
                     ^p Exo letter space c no letter space.

,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        When you see the chapter numbers suddenly go down
,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        ,,        you’ll know you’ve overshot.  Fix by using the  Undo  button.


            Continue this cell’s, & the previous cell’s, procedure
            for the chapters of every book of the Bible.

            When you get to a book of the Bible
            that, conceptually, has a number in front of it,
            for example:  FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,
            then replace every:
                     CHAPTER letter space
            with:
                     ^p 1 letter space Sam letter space c no letter space.

            Using: 
                    Edit  and  Replace, 
                         and  More  and  Match case  and  Special,
            replace all:
                     ^p^p
            with:
                    XXXXX

            Then replace all:
                     ^p
            with:
                    letter space

            Then replace all:
                    XXXXX
            with:
                     ^p^p

            Save.

            Using: 
                    Edit  and  Replace 
                    and  Match case  ticked,
            replace all:
                     letter space c letter space   
            with:
                     letter space c

            Save.

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PUT BACK THE CONTENTS LIST:

        Cut the contents list & key, out of the Contents file,
        and paste it back into
        the beginning of the Bible document.
 
        Save.

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FINALLY, TIDY UP:

        Click on the    button (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
        so as to hide all the paragraph marks etc.

        Search for something, anything,
        but with the  Match case  box un-ticked.

Job done.

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THINGS YOU CAN NOW DO:

Just like you’ve:
        re-formatted the Bible
        in   View   &   Web Layout
        (as compared to Print Layout),
so also:
        always use the Bible
        in   View   &   Web Layout.

You can ‘jump’ up, or down,
a whole chapter at a time:

        To go down a chapter:
                hold  Ctrl  key, and tap ‘down arrow’ key twice.

        To go up a chapter:
                hold  Ctrl  key, and tap ‘up arrow’ key twice.

If you want to find  1 Cor c13 v7  for example:

        Click   Edit   then   Find
        (or tap:  Alt  little finger,  E  middle,  F  index).

        Make sure   Match case   is unchecked.

        Type   2 Cor c13   in the   Find what:   box

        Click   Find Next

        Scroll down to verse 7.

(Touch-typing is a useful thing to learn.)

There are now no line breaks or paragraph marks
within each chapter:

Hence there’ll be no such breaks, that you don’t know about,
within a phrase that you’re looking for,
that would stop   Edit   &   Find 
from finding that phrase for you.

Also: however wide or narrow the window,
the text fills it.
(I suggest narrow, like a Bible or newspaper column.)

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USEFUL CUSTOMISATIONS:

        Close the Bible you’ve formatted.
        Copy it several times,
        perhaps naming them    KJV_Green    KJV_Pink    etc.

        Open each of them
        and colour their backgrounds appropriately
        by clicking   Format   &   Background.

        Perhaps identify, what I reckon is, forged text
        (perhaps see: BIBLE VERSES THAT I OMIT)
        by colouring it grey.

        Close each Bible.
        Right click on each file.
        Go to Properties
        and make each Bible Read-only.

        That way you cannot subsequently
        accidentally permanently change them.

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When such a change-proof Bible is open, you can:

    o   Highlight/colour/enlarge Bible texts
        that you want to focus on.

    o   Add distinctly different notes
        or text boxes containing your own notes.

            Put a (series of) markers inside such text boxes
            using some word that’s not in the Bible,
            (perhaps your name)
            thus making your notes easy to find
            using   Edit   &   Find.

    o   Copy Bible texts to another document.

            Highlight the Bible text you want to copy.
            Copy it  (hold Ctrl key  tap C key).
            Left click where you want it to go.
            Paste it  (hold Ctrl key  tap V key).

            Or you can use only the mouse.

            Always add KJV at the end of copied KJV text.
            To republish: check with Cambridge University Press.

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        I tend put my computer to sleep/standby
        rather than shut it down.
        Hence my Bibles, being Read-only,
        retain my notes/highlights/etc.

        I also have an Uninterruptible Power Supply
        in case of power cuts.

        (Sleep/standby makes a computer last longer
        due to no big electrical surges through the chips.
        A computer hardware engineer realised & said that
        when I asked what most shortens a computer’s life.)

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You can compare the same/similar account
in all four gospels, all at once:

        Open two Bibles.

        In both Bibles
        use the  split-screen  function, in MS Word.
        (At the top of the right hand scroll bar:
            drag down, or double-click,
            the tiny oblong.)

        You can now read the same/similar account
        in all four gospels.

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You can study a portion of the Bible:

        Isolate a passage
        by temporarily deleting the rest of the Bible:

            o   Click on the start point of the passage.
            o   Hold both Ctrl & Shift keys (with left little finger)
                 and tap  Home
                 (this highlights everything before your choice).
            o   Tap  Delete.

              o   Click on the end point of the passage.
            o   Hold both Ctrl & Shift keys (with left little finger)
                 and tap  End
                 (this highlights everything after your choice).
            o   Tap  Delete.

        You can then find a word or phrase
        in the portion of the Bible you’ve left visible:
            o   Click   Edit   &   Find  
                 (or   tap Alt,   tap E,   tap F  ).
            o   Then type what you’re looking for.

        You can also count
        the number of instances of a word/phrase
        in the portion of the Bible you’ve left visible:
            o   Click   Edit   &   Replace
                 (or   tap Alt,   tap E,   tap E  ).
            o   Type the word/phrase
                 replacing it with, say, zzzz.
            o   Click   Replace All.

        MS Word will then tell you
        how many times it was replaced by zzzz.

        Click the Undo button to fix the mess.

        (You’ll use the Undo button a lot
        when studying etc your KJV Bible file(s).)

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I would put, online, here,
the KJV Bible that I made, or rather formatted,
so as to save you all this work.

But I live in the UK
where the KJV is covered by copyright law.

However anyone anywhere
can do all the above.

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Hopefully Cambridge University Press will soon sell
the KJV, in MS Word, to save us all this kerfuffle.

I reckon all translations should be sold
in this simple MS Word form.

Traditional red-letter text for Jesus’ speech
would be nice:
        Then you could search for a half-remembered
        word/part-word/phrase that only Jesus had said
        by using:   Edit    Find    Format    Font    Font color.

        Perhaps identify, what I reckon is, forged text
        (perhaps see: BIBLE VERSES THAT I OMIT)
        by colouring it grey.

Such a product shouldn’t reduce hard copy Bible sales:

        It’s no substitute for a portable hard copy Bible
        or Bible on a mobile phone.

        It’s very much a study tool.

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