Ancestors

Written by Rosyna Keller on 2025-01-23 at 05:20

If you are on macOS, select a word in any app (including Microsoft Word) and just smack ⌃⌘D on your keyboard. It’ll show a pop-up with the definition of the word and whatever other options you set in Dictionary.app’s preferences.

In fact, in most apps, you don’t even have to select the word, just mouse over it and hit the key combo. This excludes Microsoft Office apps, you must select the word first.

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Toot

Written by Rosyna Keller on 2025-01-23 at 05:23

I mention this feature today because Microsoft just removed an extremely similar feature, called Smart Lookup, in Microsoft Office for Windows on January 1st, 2025 in order to push Copilot, Microsoft’s branding for their “AI” efforts.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/get-insights-into-what-you-re-working-on-with-smart-lookup-debf2083-5ac0-4739-8667-ae2467bec044

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Descendants

Written by Rosyna Keller on 2025-01-23 at 08:21

Oh my goddess, Microsoft Word for iOS is so much worse. It overrides the default “Look Up” menu item that iOS provides to text fields for free and replaces it with “Smart Lookup”.

Actually trying to use the “Smart Lookup” context menu item just shows a sheet that says “Smart Lookup” and contains zero text. No indication that the feature has been removed or that it no longer functions.

It just sits there, mocking me.

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Written by Schwieb on 2025-01-23 at 15:39

@rosyna ugh. Bug reported to the Word team.

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