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Easy Dictionary Access
June 28, 2006 - Filed in: General
It is possible to access the Mac OS X Dictionary and Thesaurus from any Cocoa application (Mail, TextEdit, Safari, etc.) using a simple keyboard shortcut.
To access the dictionary, place the mouse cursor over the word you want to look up., and press Command-Control-D. a small window pops up giving you a quick definition, and you can easily select thesaurus or Morefor more information on a word.
To look up multiple words you can just move the mouse whilst keeping command and control held down (you can release D).
To access the dictionary, place the mouse cursor over the word you want to look up., and press Command-Control-D. a small window pops up giving you a quick definition, and you can easily select thesaurus or Morefor more information on a word.
To look up multiple words you can just move the mouse whilst keeping command and control held down (you can release D).