There are times when I want to use the dictionary or thesaurus of Spellcatcher simply to investigate a word. Currently there is no way to do this without first creating a doc, typing in a word and then checking it. It would be nice if there were a menu item that would open the check word dialog box and then let you type a word in then and there without having to go through rigamarole of faking the 'checking' of a word. This would make dictionaries and thesaurus far more helpful and general purpose.
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Enable use w/ no word selected
Started by sixsigma, Feb 25 2006 12:04 AM
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Posted 25 February 2006 - 08:46 PM
sixsigma, on Feb 25 2006, 12:04 AM, said:
There are times when I want to use the dictionary or thesaurus of Spellcatcher simply to investigate a word. Currently there is no way to do this without first creating a doc, typing in a word and then checking it. It would be nice if there were a menu item that would open the check word dialog box and then let you type a word in then and there without having to go through rigamarole of faking the 'checking' of a word. This would make dictionaries and thesaurus far more helpful and general purpose.
You should be able to open the Look Up or Check Word window without any selection having to be made first! You can't do it from the Services > Spell Catcher menu, but shouldn't be a problem from either the input menu or Dock menu.
You can always open those windows from within the Spell Catcher application itself - just choose what you want from the Window menu.
