thanks so much and sorry to make you all repeat. On 2013-01-28, at 1:31 AM, Danny Noonan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > > -- 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.
