Mar 19
If you have the Dictionary app in the dock, you can highlight a word and just drag that to the app. Then the app should launch and give the definition.
Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools
Tips and Tricks for Apple’s Leopard operating system
March 20th, 2008 at 1:16 am
I don’t have the Dictionary app in my dock, but I found you can right click on a word and the pop-up menu has a “Look up in Dictionary” choice.
March 20th, 2008 at 1:04 pm
Or you can just type the word in Spotlight and it will pull up the definition…
March 20th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
is it possible to add more dictionaries (or to download them from somewhere)?
March 20th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Now this is a truly useful tip!
I usually find words I don’t know online, so the easiest resource is dictionary.com. …but with access to the dictionary program so close, I won’t even have to wait for the dictionary.com page to load!
March 23rd, 2008 at 5:52 pm
How do I drag the word? When I try to drag it the text gets selected