Also, you can highlight a word with shift option left or right arrow, VO shift m for context menu and the first option is look up + the word highlighted , EG, I just selected "Context" so the option is "Look up Context".Choosing this lets you use dictionary, thesaurus or wikipedia. This is wonderful. Any word you want info on, bang. You write a word but find your using it too often, go look up the thesaurus for an alternate word choice. Google search is another option from the context menu so it's all very quick and easy.
My daughter says she has extra dictionaries on her school MacBook and I'd love to know where and how to get them. I'm always trying to remember what letters American words skip. :-) Now I'm off to play with the dictionary. I want to see if you can add words etc. Kind regards, Danny: On 27/01/2013, at 6:37 AM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Kerri, > > You can access the dictionary either through typing in the first couple > letters of it in spotlight search, accessed with command+space. Or, you can > navigate to your applications folder with command+shift+A, interact with > that, and browse to the dictionary app. > Once in the app, you can navigate to the toolbar, interact with that, and go > to the search field. Type in the word you wish to look up, and press enter. > Then stop interacting with the toolbar, and navigate to the html area. In > there, once you interact, you'll find your results. > there's probably some other keystrokes that make jumping from the toolbar to > the html area quicker, but vo+J doesn't seem to accomplish this, so please > forgive the long way around explanation and keyboard action. > Hope that helps some, > Rachel > On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Kerri <[email protected]> wrote: > >> hello, all. How do I access the dictionary on the mac both on the fly and >> using it as an application? I am totally senile as the podcast I have on the >> subject must e for a different or older operating system. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
