{"id":27927,"date":"2018-06-01T10:05:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/?p=27927"},"modified":"2018-06-25T08:39:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-25T12:39:22","slug":"look-up-all-sorts-of-information-with-a-quick-click-or-tap-on-the-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/look-up-all-sorts-of-information-with-a-quick-click-or-tap-on-the-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Look Up All Sorts of Information with a Quick Click or Tap on the Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple makes it easy to look up information about any word you can see on your Mac, in nearly any app. To access this information, Control- or right-click the word and choose Look Up <em>\u201cword\u201d,<\/em> use the trackpad to tap the word with three fingers, or hover the pointer over it and press Command-Control-D. macOS displays a popover with a dictionary definition. And in 10.12 Sierra and later, you can also swipe right with two fingers on the trackpad (or click the buttons at the bottom) to see much more in the popover, including Wikipedia entries, apps, news, sports info, movies, TV shows, music, maps, Twitter accounts, and more. Give it a try a few times, and it might become a habit!<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-6108 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/Look-up-info-apple-1-1024x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"826\" height=\"462\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 826px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 826\/462;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple makes it easy to look up information about any word you can see on your Mac, in nearly any app. To access this information, Control- or right-click the word and choose Look Up \u201cword\u201d, use the trackpad to tap the word with three fingers, or hover the pointer over it and press Command-Control-D. macOS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[157,193,39,64,5,60,196,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple-pros","category-apros-archive","category-blog","category-keyboard-shortcut","category-mac","category-productivity","category-restricted-content","category-tip"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6YLEm-7gr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26872,"url":"http:\/\/www.computeradvantage.us\/v3\/did-you-know-apple-hid-huge-reference-books-in-your-mac\/","url_meta":{"origin":27927,"position":0},"title":"Did You Know Apple Hid Huge Reference Books in Your Mac?","author":"computeradv","date":"July 14, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"You\u2019re probably used to Mac apps using red underlines to mark misspelled words, but did you know that macOS has long included a fully featured Dictionary app as well? 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