How to put KJV
into MS Word

 

QUICK WAY

 

A quick way to get a fairly good version of the KJV,
in MS Word, onto your laptop or desktop PC
(I prefer a desktop, with a mouse & a big screen
and an ergonomic keyboard for touch-typing)
is as follows:

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        Go to: King James Bible Online.

 

        Go to  MORE…  (at top of window).
        Click on  Download the Bible.
        Choose MS Word.
        (Or choose PDF, i.e. Adobe Acrobat,
        though it’s less useful.)

 

Their MS Word file is simple.

I use MS Word 2002, on MS XP operating system,
on an offline Dell PC.

(I find new MS Word to be an unituitive mess
which needs the mouse a lot
which is more likely to give you RSI.)

 

When downloaded
(assuming you’ve chosen MS Word version):

        Open it in MS Word.
        Go to  View, then click on  Web Layout.

 

        Job done.

 

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        It’s got italics.
        Italics identify text that the KJV translators added.
        (All translators add words
        but only the KJV shows it.)

 

        Though it hasn’t got red letters.
        Red text is where Jesus himself is speaking.

 

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BEST WAY

 

Download a whole KJV Bible file
by following the instructions
in the previous section.

 

The rest of this webpage is how to make improvements
to that downloaded KJV Bible file.

 

These improvements may take several hours to make
but I reckon they’re worth it.

 

    On your computer, resize this browser window
    (browser = Chrome, Edge, etc)
    to be the full height of your screen
    but only a centimetre wider than this column.

 

    Make a folder, on the desktop (right click),
    and make a copy of the downloaded KJV file
    & put it in the folder, for safekeeping.

    Open the original downloaded KJV file, in MS Word.

 

    Resize the MS Word window
    to be the same height & width as this browser window.

 

    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.

    Make the MS Word view/zoom to be 100%
    (if it isn’t already).

 

    Right click on the MS Word menu bar
    to ‘open’ the  Standard  and the  Formatting  toolbars
    (if they’re not already on view).

 

    Click on  View  then  Web Layout
    (if it’s not in web layout already).

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    Perhaps save your work often.

 

    And/or set
    Tools / Options / Save AutoRecover info every:
    at every two minutes or so.

    The Bible is a very long MS Word document:

 

            So scrolling up/down would take ages.

 

                     So go to beginning by
                     holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping  Home  key.

 

                     And go to the end by
                     holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping  End  key.

 

            Also, some automated tasks may take awhile.

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DELETE SECTION BREAKS & HEADERS:

 

    In the Standard toolbar (top of MS Word)
    click on the    button  (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
    to show paragraph marks etc in the Bible.

 

    Click on the beginning of the document.

 

    Use  Edit and Replace
    and  More  and  Special and Replace All
    to replace:
            all  Section Breaks
            with
            nothing.
    Then close the  Find and Replace  box.

 

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

 

    Close any floating header-and-footer bar.

 

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

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MOVE EVERYTHING LEFT:

 

    Highlight all text by
    holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  A  key.
    Take hands off keyboard.
    Hold  Ctrl  key, and tap  L  key.

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HOMOGENISE TEXT:

 

    Make all text Times New Roman
    or a serif font of your choice
    (serif fonts are more legible):

 

        Highlight all text by
        holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  A  key.
        Click on  Format
        Click on  Font
        Highlight  Times New Roman
        in top left list of dialogue box.
        Click OK.

 

    Make all text
    the size you’d like the body text to be
    (we’ll enlarge book headings later):

 

        Highlight all text by
        holding  Ctrl  key, and tapping the  A  key.
        Click on  Format,
        Click on  Font,
        Highlight the size you’d like
        in top right list of dialogue box.
        Click OK.

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MAKE A KEY:

 

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

 

    Click on the    button  (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
    to show paragraph marks etc.

 

    Highlight everything up to the contents list
    (i.e. the first dozen or so lines)
    by using the left button of mouse and sliding downwards.
    Then delete what you’ve highlighted.

 

    Cannibalise the contents list
    to convert it into the usual biblical key
    (see: List of abbreviations of books of the Bible)
    so that it looks something like:

 

        Genesis  ’ ’ Gen
        Exodus   ’ ’ Exo
        Leviticus ’ ’ Lev
        Numbers ’ ’ Num
        Etc..

 

    The arrows are tab marks: press Tab key to make them.
    To make paragraph marks press Enter key.
    To delete anything use delete key.

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MAKE CHAPTERS EASY TO FIND:

 

     Use  Edit  and  Replace
     and  More  and  Special  and  Replace All
     to:

 

          change, all in one go, every:
              full stop  and a  paragraph mark  
          into:
              a full stop

 

          change, all in one go, every:
             comma  and a  paragraph mark   
         into:
             a comma

 

          change, all in one go, every:
             semi-colon  and a  paragraph mark  
         into:
             a semi-colon

 

          change, all in one go, every:
             colon  and a  paragraph mark 
         into:
             a colon

 

          change, all in one go, every:
             question mark  and a  paragraph mark  
         into:
             a question mark

 

          change, all in one go, every:
             bracket closure   and a  paragraph mark
         into:
             a bracket closure

 

    By bracket closure I mean   ) 

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GET RID OF PILCROWS:

 

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

 

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

 

    On the Numbers keypad (square batch of keys to right)
    turn on the  Num Lock  key.

 

     Make the  Edit  then  Replace  dialogue box appear:

 

            Click within its  Find what  space.

    Hold the shift key,
    and, on the long row of number keys at top of keyboard,
    tap the number  6 

 

    On either numbers keypad, tap the numbers   0 1 8 2 

 

    Hence, in the  Find what  space, you should 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.  Wait until it’s finished.

 

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

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MAKE CHAPTERS HEADINGS
(Read all four of these cells
before you act on any of it.)

 

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

 

    Use  Edit  and  Replace
      to make the  Find and Replace dialogue box appear
    and move it to the blank space.

 

    Use  Edit  and  Replace
      and  More  and  Match case  and  Special
    to do the following:

 

        Tick  Match case.

 

        Starting at the beginning,
        change, one at a time,
        batches of:
            CHAPTER  letter space
        into:
            Gen  letter space  c  no letter space.

 

        (Rather than repeatedly click on  Replace
        perhaps repeatedly tap on the space bar.)

        When you get to Exodus,
        change, one at a time,
        batches of:
            CHAPTER  letter space
        into:
            Exo  letter space  c  no letter space.

 

        (When you see the chapter numbers
        suddenly go down
        you’ll know you’ve overshot.
        Simply use the  Undo  button.)

        As you get to chapters that will each have
        a number in front of them, e.g. 1 Samuel,
        change every:
            CHAPTER  letter space
        into:
            1  letter space  Sam  letter space  c  no letter space.

        As you pass through the following four headings
        delete the lines I’ve greyed out:

THE

FIRST BOOK OF SAMUEL,
OTHERWISE CALLED,

THE FIRST BOOK OF THE KINGS.

 

THE

SECOND BOOK OF SAMUEL,

OTHERWISE CALLED,

THE SECOND BOOK OF THE KINGS.

 

THE FIRST

BOOK OF THE KINGS,

COMMONLY CALLED,

THE THIRD BOOK OF THE KINGS.

 

THE SECOND

BOOK OF THE KINGS,

COMMONLY CALLED,

THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE KINGS.

 

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TIDY UP EACH BOOK HEADING:

 

    Click on the    button  (i.e. the  Show/Hide  button)
    to show all the paragraph marks (not so many now).

 

    I’ve already written that:
        To go to the beginning:
                 hold  Ctrl  key, and tap  Home  key.
        To go to the end:
                 hold  Ctrl  key, and tap  End  key.

 

    Now you’ll also find that, 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.

    Use the above keyboard tips:
        to go to beginning of Bible
        and to work your way down, through the chapters,
        until you get to each book heading.

 

        (You’ll know when you’ve overshot because the
        chapter number will suddenly go down.)

    Ideally I should give Genesis as the first example.
    But Exodus is more educational.

 

    When you get to each book heading,
    e.g.:

 

         in Egypt.THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES,CALLED¶
          EXODUS.Exo c1¶
          NOW these are the names of

 

    add manual line breaks   8 
        (hold  Ctrl  key, and tap  Enter  key)

 

    and move the two paragraph marks       
        (to delete a mark: tap  delete  key
         to add a mark: tap  Enter  key)

 

    which will change the book headings
    to:

          in Egypt.¶
          THE SECOND BOOK OF MOSES,CALLED8
          EXODUS.¶
          Exo c1 NOW these are the names of

 

    Notice:
        The two paragraph marks
        encase the heading.
        There are only manual line break(s)
        inside the heading.
        There is only a letter space
        after Gen c1.

    While you are at each book heading:

 

        Centralise it:
            (Click within it.
            Then hold  Ctrl  key, and tap  E  key.)

 

        Embolden & enlarge the main word (e.g. EXODUS)
            (Click within the word EXODUS.
            Then hold  Ctrl  and tap  B  key.
            Then hold  Ctrl  and tap five times on the  }]  key.)

 

    If you like, delete all of the title, except the word EXODUS.
    This may help with accuracy later if you do a word count.

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

 

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

 

Job done.

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As well as having
made the Bible
in  View / Web Layout
also use the Bible
in  View / Web Layout.

If you want to find, say,  1 Cor c13 v7,
all you need do is:

 

        Click  Edit  then  Find
        (or tap:  Alt  little finger,  E  middle,  F  index).
        Type   2 Cor c13   and click  Find Next.
        Scroll down to verse 7.

 

        (N.B. You may still have  Match case  checked
        from when you ‘made’ the Bible.)

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

 

Hence there’ll be no line breaks, that you don’t know about,
within a phrase that you’re looking for.
(Such a line break would otherwise have prevented
Edit  and  Find  from finding the phrase.)

 

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

 

Also, to move up or down, one chapter at a time,
you merely need to:
            hold  Ctrl  and tap  ‘up arrow’  key twice 
        or hold  Ctrl  and tap  ‘down arrow’  key twice. 

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USEFUL CUSTOMISATIONS:

 

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

 

            Open each of them
            and colour their backgrounds (pale green, pink, etc)
            by clicking  Format  and  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 of them,
        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 text boxes with your own notes in them.

 

            Put a (series of) markers inside those text boxes
            (use some character or word that’s not in the Bible,
            perhaps your name)
            to make your notes easy to find
            (using  Edit  and  Find).

 

    o   Copy Bible texts to another document.

 

            Highlight the Bible text you want
            then copy it (hold  Ctrl  and tap  C  key).
            Then left click where you want it to go.
            Then paste it (hold  Ctrl  and tap  V  key).

            Or you can use only the mouse.

 

            Always add KJV at the end of text you’ve copied.
            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.

 

        However, if you have power cuts, you may want to
        have one of your Bibles not Read-only 
        so that you can save your notes/highlights/etc.

 

        (Sleep/standby makes a computer last longer
        due to no electrical surges through the chips.)

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You can compare the same account in all four gospels:

 

        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 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 beginning point
                 of your chosen 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 your chosen passage.
            o   Hold both Ctrl and 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  then  Find
                 (or tap  Alt, tap  E, tap  F ).
            o   Type what you’re looking for.

 

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

 

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

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I would put, online, here,
the KJV Bible that I made
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 download a KJV Bible,
from King James Bible Online,
and then reformat it, as I did,
using all the above instructions.

The MS Word Bibles you make
are then only for your personal use.

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Regarding such downloads etc
to get a good idea as to what a company is like:

 

        Google  the site’s name,
        adding the phrase  is crooked  or  is bad
        to see whether unhappy customers
        have already vented their spleen anywhere online.

 

Christians are tempting targets for crooks.

 

You should also have good anti-virus
and anti-malware programmes on your PC.
Google for comparisons on those too.

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Hopefully Cambridge University Press will soon sell
the KJV (& other translations) in MS Word
to save us all this kerfuffle.

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.

 

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

Or (second best) if they also/instead
put the Bible in Rich Text Format,
so that it can open in MS Word Pad.

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

 

        It’s no substitute for a portable hard copy Bible.
        It’s more of a study tool than anything.

 

        Though it may reduce the sales
        of hard copy concordances.

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As a study tool I find my MS Word Bibles fast & powerful.

I also recommend getting a teach-yourself touch typing book.

Perhaps go to evening classes to fully learn MS Word.
(Mind you, modern MS Word looks a pale shadow
of the intuitive flexible 2002 version I have
on my standalone PC.)

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