Why a return of all verses upon chapter query?

[Martin Smith]

When I submit a query, e.g., Ezekiel 17, I am returned all verses surrounding the chapter. This becomes a problem when I have queried a chapter in order to select and copy the returned verses in the chapter. I then get an error message saying that I cannot copy more than 500 verses at a time. I know this is related to the associated setting directly beneath my search tab which allows a value to increase the number of verses following the user query. In my case when I query a chapter, e.g. Ezekiel 17, Accordance automatically changes this "following verses value" from 0 to "A" which returns all the verses in the text. How do I prevent this besides specifying in my query a limited range of verses in a chapter, e.g., Ezekiel 17:1-24? I've attached two graphics indicating the problem via screen snippets.

Thanks in advance,

Martin

[mbcvida]

I think you can change the context slider in the Accordance preferences so that it does not include additional context to your query - you want it set to 0

[Steven S]

Hi @Martin Smith. I think I know of two ways to do what you want, but there may be others that are more efficient.

 

First, before you copy, you can quickly change the context slider to 0 using the associated keyboard shortcut (the default on Windows is Ctrl+/). This shortcut toggles the context between 0 and whatever it is currently set to (usually All).

 

Second, if you find yourself doing this a lot, you can (as @mbcvida suggested) change your global search tab preferences. Under Preferences > Search Tabs, uncheck the Add automatic context option. Then any new search tab you open will have the context slider initialized to 0.

[Martin Smith]

Thank you MBC and Steven. The preferences option setting did what I needed.