Oh I love the dictionary. I can search wikipedia and everything, it works so 
much better than safari.
On Jan 26, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Rachel Feinberg <walksi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Kerri,
> 
> You can access the dictionary either through typing in the first couple 
> letters of it in spotlight search, accessed with command+space. Or, you can 
> navigate to your applications folder with command+shift+A, interact with 
> that, and browse to the dictionary app.
> Once in the app, you can navigate to the toolbar, interact with that, and go 
> to the search field. Type in the word you wish to look up, and press enter. 
> Then stop interacting with the toolbar, and navigate to the html area. In 
> there, once you interact, you'll find your results.
> there's probably some other keystrokes that make jumping from the toolbar to 
> the html area quicker, but vo+J doesn't seem to accomplish this, so please 
> forgive the long way around explanation and keyboard action.
> Hope that helps some,
> Rachel 
> On Jan 26, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Kerri <shalo...@shaw.ca> wrote:
> 
>> hello, all. How do I access the dictionary on the mac both on the fly and 
>> using it as an application? I am totally senile as the podcast I have on the 
>> subject must e for a different or older operating system.
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