Research Task pane add services

[Andy]

how does one add a service in the research task pane. what I want to be able to do is research a word and have it look up in www.thesaurus.com or www.dictionary.co

i've tries entering the web address in the add servies and the dialog box says "No services were added because the service provider did not provide any valid information.

Thank you in advanc

andy

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "Andy" <[email protected]>,

This would have to be done by www.somedictionaryprovider.com
contacting MS, probably anteing up, and providing a compliant
interface

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[andy]

It's a shame really. A feature like that certainly would make the program more powerful, better integration with internet explorer and research service. In my non-software-engineering mind, word copies the string you alt-click on and sends that string to the research service you chose. What would be difficult for MS to send that same string to a dialog box in internet explorer, whether it be dictionary.com / thesaururs.com / yahoo / google / msn or whatever. Perhaps a patch in the future.....

andy

 

[Word Heretic]

G'day "andy" <[email protected]>,

I'm with you on this one Andy

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