Instant Dictionary Lookup (Mac Monday)

Instant Dictionary Lookup (Mac Monday)

Have you ever been reading an email or surfing the net and come across a word you wanted to lookup, but didn’t because it takes too much time? Even with Dictionary widgets and websites like Dictionary.com it still takes too long to have to copy and paste the word or wait on the internet.

So, I have the solution for you Mac users out there. This quick little tip will allow you to lookup the definition of any word in any Mac native program (Coco). The best part is the Dictionary application does NOT need to be open or even running in the background.

All you need to do is hold down Control+Command+D with your mouse hovering over the word you wish to lookup. You can even continue to hold down the keyboard shortcut and move the mouse from one word to another. The dictionary description will automatically update for each word.

If you are not sure what programs this will work with, here is a small list: Safari, Mail, TextEdit, Text Wrangler, Comic Life, iWeb and some other native Mac programs.

However, this shortcut will NOT work with programs that are not written in Coco. So even your favorite programs like Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Camino and Flock wont work with this shortcut.

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