When you are in a Word document and you select a term and try to “instant send” it to LaunchBar by pressing and holding the LaunchBar shortcut, instead of sending the text to LaunchBar, Word actually… replaces the selected text by a manual page break. The bad news is that, of course, there had to be one application that would ruin the whole thing, and that application is-of course-Microsoft Word. (I don’t need to first switch to Safari, load the TERMIUM search form and then submit the term.) It’s great, because I can do it all with the keyboard, and it’s user-centric as opposed to application-centric, which is more intuitive. This automatically opens a new window in Safari with the result of the search for this term in the TERMIUM database. In other words, when I encounter a term that I need to look up in a text document, I can just select it, press and hold the LaunchBar shortcut, then select my TERMIUM search template in LaunchBar and press Return. The good news was that the new interface now allowed me to use LaunchBar to “instant send” a string of text from my current application (text editor, word processor) to TERMIUM in order to look it up in the database. The other day, I wrote about the recent revamp of TERMIUM, one of the on-line terminology databases that I use most often in my work.
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