Re: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia?
Thanks for this tip Ronnie. I didn't realise there were so many options! (Apologies for delayed response - an out-of-control inbox). Cheers, Steven On 22/02/2009, at 3:03 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ? Steven Knowles Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:06:50 -0800 Wondering if someone has already invented this wheel - I'm trying to avoid spending hours on it if so. I'm fairly sure it'd be a piece of cake for someone familiar with it. As you'd know, you can double-click on a word in most documents to highlight it, and then right-click that word to immediately look it up in dictionary or Google or Spotlight. How do I tweak the menu options, or add a new menu option, to enable me to do the same but look up in Wikipedia? --- Hi Steven, As you are aware I'm no longer subscribed to WAMUG Mailing list, but I do check the Archives now and then. In answer to your above query, you can change Dictionary's Preferences. Open Dictionary Application Preferences - Drag Wikipedia to the top location in the sources. Beside Contextual Menu: check 'Open Dictionary Application'. Then when you 'Right-Click' or 'Control-Click' a word in any Coca application - 'look up in Dictionary' and Dictionary will open and show Wikipedia first. If you only wanted Wikipedia to show, uncheck the Thesaurus, Dictionary etc in Preferences. Cheers, Ronni -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ?
On 22/02/2009, at 3:06 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: Wondering if someone has already invented this wheel - I'm trying to avoid spending hours on it if so. I'm fairly sure it'd be a piece of cake for someone familiar with it. As you'd know, you can double-click on a word in most documents to highlight it, and then right-click that word to immediately look it up in dictionary or Google or Spotlight. How do I tweak the menu options, or add a new menu option, to enable me to do the same but look up in Wikipedia? Cheers, Steven What browser are you using? It works fine for me in Safari. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
How to right-click and look up in Wikipedia ?
Wondering if someone has already invented this wheel - I'm trying to avoid spending hours on it if so. I'm fairly sure it'd be a piece of cake for someone familiar with it. As you'd know, you can double-click on a word in most documents to highlight it, and then right-click that word to immediately look it up in dictionary or Google or Spotlight. How do I tweak the menu options, or add a new menu option, to enable me to do the same but look up in Wikipedia? Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
