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January 18, 2007
Control-click words
Not sure about a word? Not sure how to spell it? Don't know what it means? Want to find out more? Control-click it, i.e. hold down the CONTROL key and click the word.
Control-clicking a word will give you option to spell check, use Spotlight to search for the word in all documents on your Mac, search the web with Google, or look up the word in OS X's system-wide Dictionary.
This tip would effectively end the days of leaning across to your colleague and asking them if they know how spell 'naive,' or of reading an article and simply ignoring the words you don't
This is what is known as a disruptive technology - if you don't disrupt your familiar habits and go out of your way to use it, you disrupt your colleagues.
(Go on - select 'disruptive technology' and control-click it to Google what it really means.)
Posted by Brad at January 18, 2007 01:48 PM
