Hi Folks,
I'm running Pages 5.6 (2553). I used to be able to just right click on a word, select define and it would list the definition in dictionary and thesaurus. Now, it only responses from wikipedia and News. Why is this happening? I tried to figure out a setting, but no luck. Could anyone help? This wasn't happening in the last update.
Thank you,
Hebert
iMac 8,1, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
Herbert and Robert,
Method 1.
After you click on a word, Right click (control click) on that word
Method 2.
Have a look at System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click > Look up & data detectors
(Or System Preferences > Mouse > Point & Click)
With a Trackpad, click once on a word, then three finger tap
Regards,
Ian.
Hi Robert,
To my recollection, I've not downloaded any dictionaries or thesauri. These are the results I get from right-clicking (control-clicking) 'thesaurus' in a Pages 5.6.2 document:
Scrolling down gives further options of Spanish, Spanish-English, and Portuguese, and a link to Open in Dictionary.
Results are the same when 'thesaurus' is included in a bulleted list.
Regards,
Barry
In my case, I opened the Dictionary (App) and it showed that the Dictionary (App) had not downloaded ANY "Dictionaries". Once downloaded, Look Up in Pages it worked fine for definitions and Thesaurus. I think I had tried to download the "Dictionaries" at some point before and it failed but pretty lame it's not automatic to the language selected for MacOS
There is a known bug when attempting to lookup a word from within a list in Pages v5.6. The lookup in dictionary from the right-click still works with Pages v5.6 on my El Capitan 10.11.1 implementation — when outside of a list. How you have your dictionary items ordered in your Dictionary App Preferences, may have a bearing on what you see on a lookup.
Why does Mac Pages dictionary look up doesn't work?
