Looking up words in the Dict App

[Ovate]

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

With other applications on Leopard you can highlight a word, right click on it and then choose "look up in Dictionary" from the contextual menu that displays. This opens the Dict App and looks up the highlighted word in it. However when trying this in Word the option doesnt show up. Would anyone know how to get this option to show up in contextual menus in Word? I have a number of dictionarys in the Dict App, such as Chinese and Japanese that I would like to use when reading Word documents.

 

[John McGhie]

In Word 2008, the right-click "Look Up" contextual menu calls the Microsoft
Office built-in reference tools.

You would have to hack the program files to cause it to call the Dict
application.

Sorry.

Version: 2008
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
Processor: Intel

With other applications on Leopard you can highlight a word, right click on it
and then choose "look up in Dictionary" from the contextual menu that
displays. This opens the Dict App and looks up the highlighted word in it.
However when trying this in Word the option doesnt show up. Would anyone know
how to get this option to show up in contextual menus in Word? I have a number
of dictionarys in the Dict App, such as Chinese and Japanese that I would like
to use when reading Word documents.

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