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Bible Workbook

File this under “The last thing you’d expect from John Walkenbach.” It’s the Bible in an Excel workbook.

I found a text file with the complete King James Version of the Bible. I wrote a few macros and dumped it all into an Excel workbook. Each book is on a separate worksheet, and each verse is in a separate cell.

It has a handy hyperlink table of contents so you can jump to any book. I also wrote some summary formulas to calculate the number of characters in each book, and the average number of characters per verse. Then I added a word count feature: Enter a word and it displays the number of occurrences in each book. Finally, I set up a User Form that displays a random verse.

You can download it here. It’s a 1.8 Mb zip file, and it expands to a 6.1Mb Excel workbook. Even if you have no interest in the content, you may discover a few useful techniques. You’ll need to enable macros to use the random verse feature.

19 thoughts on “ Bible Workbook ”

Guaranteed to be the first bible from an atheist spreadsheet author! I can’t wait for your Powerpoint version of The Book of Mormon, John.

Cool! Now if you get holy water into a spreadsheet too we can attack that vampire I unleashed in your contest!

“…to calculate the number of characters in each book…”

Interesting. I’ve heard that Jesus was quite a character.

I love it! Can’t wait for Excel 2007 “large print and pretty colors” version 😀

I had a professor in college by the name of Dr. David Dailey. He is a computer science professor at Slippery Rock University. He used to do random stuff like this ALL THE TIME. Infact we had assignments where the task was to “find a bunch of random data like a dictionary or bible and do something cool with it”.

I think you two would be really great friends if you knew each other. He was one of my favorite professors and you are one of my favorite authors, so it all makes sense.

I had no idea that the Bible had so much Excel content. Here are some word counts:

cell: 70
rows: 95
columns: 0
sheet: 4
scroll: 2
icon: 7
range: 297
borders: 43
print: 5
windows: 30

I really like this! How long did it take?

Very good!!
I think, the function “Count of a text string”
<=SUM(LEN(UPPER(INDIRECT(“‘”&C5&”‘!B2:B”&D5)))-………>
It doesn’t work for the first row B1.
Yes?
Ioannis, Athens

Ken, I think it took about an hour to get all of the text in there, separated into sheets. Then I probably spent anther two hours or so adding new features to it.

Good Catch, Ioannis. Change both occurrences of “B2? to “B1?.

The other array formulas have the same error. I just posted a corrected version.

This is so neat but I’d like it much better if it were the New Revised Standard Version!

Has anyone found a word that only appears once?

This is actually pretty cool. When I have some time I have to make a Red Letter version.

I was wondering … could you “convert”
<=SUM(LEN(UPPER(INDIRECT(“‘”&C5&”‘!B1:B”&D5)))-………>
into an array-formula that counts only the visible rows?

Anyone?
Best Regards Sige

Ostriche appears only once in the whole bibile (in Lamentations)

14 years later, I’d like to access your work: Bible in Excel (old version is OK). That link in your blog is no longer working. So, it will be great if you could help me here. Thank you so much.

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Microsoft Excel is the powerful, widely used and most popular spreadsheet software. Almost every computer user should use it sometime, meanwhile it is also a relatively complex software to use.

Excel Bible (AKA: Microsoft Excel Bible) covers almost all functions of Microsoft Excel 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019 informative and focused. It has both the introduction to basic knowledge and detail, expansion to key functions, a lot of knowledge introduced of which does not exist in other similar books. So, for each Excel software users (either primary or advanced users), this book has great reference value, and could be a real sense of bible class library.

In short, under the direction of the world’s top Excel authoritative expert John Walkenbach, this ultimate guide for fully grasping Excel can definitely upgrade your spreadsheet skills to a brand new level.

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Excel For You

Lookup a Bible Verse Using #Excel (w/o VBA) by David Hager

John Walkenbach was the first to create an Excel application that allowed the user to read Bible verses.

He used an approach where the entire Bible was loaded into a workbook. I decided to try using a new technique that did not require the Bible verses be part of the workbook.

But, to do this, I needed a source of the number of verses in each Bible chapter. Luckily, I found someone that had already performed that task.

After pulling in the table from this web site with Power Query and fixing a minor Text to Columns issue, I needed to unpivot the data. In order to do this, I used this Power Query technique on the table.

It required highlighting 149 columns to unpivot, which is the most I have ever heard of. Armed with a three column table with books, chapters and number of verses, I was ready to build the worksheet input cells. I created an unique list of Bible books from column A into column E by utilizing Data Advanced Filter with the unique option. I also made a list of numbers from 1 to 150 (the maximum number of chapters in any Bible book). I added a Data Validation list to cell H1 (named TheBook) using the following defined name range.

The next step was to create a dynamic defined name range for chaapter numbers corresponding to each book. A Data Validation list was added to cell I1 with the formula shown below.

Finally, a Data Validation list was added to cell J1 with the formula shown below.

where cells H1:J1 are named TheBook, TheChapter and TheVerse respectively (see figure).

While these formulas are very useful and powerful, a discussion of how they work is outside of the focus of this article, which is to use the WEBSERVICE and FILTERXML functions to return the desired Bible verse without use of VBA code.

All of this preliminary work was done in the hope that an XML source for Bible verses could be found. And, the following site was identified as providing this.

So, the following formula does all of the heavy work in retrieving the XML output and reading the correct node.

As originally designed, this formula was intended to be in cell H5 (the Bible verse cell). Well, it turned out that some of the verses returned by the web service had a topic attached, as shown below for the value for Song of Solomon 2:3.

The Beloved about Her Lover: Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. I delight to sit in his shade, and his fruit is sweet to my taste.

And so, the following formula removes this XLM part from the string if it is present.

In cell H5 =IF(ISERROR(FIND(“/b>”,H4)),H4,MID(H4,FIND(“/b>”,H4)+3,255))

I hope that you find the techniques demonstrated here useful.

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Ron de Bruin
Excel Automation

Excel Function Bible for Excel

Excel Function Bible Help is created by Norman Harker(Australia) in association with Ron de Bruin(Netherlands). You can use the link below to download all the 468 example files and a Function Index workbook so it is easy to search and open the example workbooks. When you open the Excel Function Bible Menu workbook you will find a worksheet for each function classification group but I also add the classifications on my site with a brief description, check out the links below the download.

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The Excel Function Bible is aimed at providing meaningful and practical help in finding and implementing the 468 Excel functions. It replaces and adds significantly to the help users can call for whilst building or using Excel workbooks. To make it easier to navigate through all the Excel functions example workbooks(using a nice Ribbon interface) It will also be available as a add-in soon.

A fully inclusive set of indexes allows users to find particular functions and gives the brief descriptions. Using these indexes on the classifications web pages users can bring up individual files for each function.

The first worksheet of each function file provides descriptions of the functions, the syntax, and descriptions of the arguments required. The front page includes a brief history of the function that allows users to determine which versions of Excel introduced the function and whether and when capabilities of the functions were changed. Each front page provides details of any equations used by the function in traditional and linear format. An addition section provides the cause of error messages that may be returned by the function. There is also a link on this worksheet to the Excel online help for the function.

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