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Expanding Searches
7. Press the arrow keys to highlight a book
under the Old or New menu.
8. Press and then select a section with
matches.
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Unexpanding Searches
To unexpand an expanded word search, first
press
. Then press the arrow keys to
highlight the Unexpand Search item under the
Search menu. Then press .
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A Quick Way to Expand Searches
Rather than using the Expand Search item
under the Search menu, simply press up
to three times to expand a word search. After a
word search, you can press
when Bible
verses or the Old and New menus are in view.
To quickly unexpand an unexpanded word
search, press plus .
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Expanding Search Words
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Understanding Expansion Levels
When you expand a search word, you see a
message showing the current expansion level.
There are four expansion levels. Each level
adds related words to your search.
Expansion Level 1 is the unexpanded search
word (e.g., belief) alone. Level 2 adds inflec-
tions (e.g., believe and believed). Level 3 adds
compound and related words (e.g., believer
and unbelief). Level 4 adds synonyms (e.g.,
understand and obeyed).
If an expansion level adds no words, the
expansion automatically moves to the next
level. For that reason, many words are fully
expanded to Level 4 after less than three
expansions.
