Text Expander for Windows » global context sensitive search http://www.text-expander.com Learn how to use the Windows TextExpander PhraseExpress efficiently Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:06:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Web based Search in any program http://www.text-expander.com/web-based-search-in-any-program http://www.text-expander.com/web-based-search-in-any-program#comments Wed, 18 Mar 2009 09:17:13 +0000 Michael http://www.text-expander.com/?p=35 Imagine, you could highlight any text in any program and search for that term e.g. in Google, Wikipedia, Translate.com, etc., with a single keystroke.

The text expander “PhraseExpress” offers that: For example, mark an address in Word, Messenger, Excel, dBase or Dreamweaver, hit the customizable keyboard shortcut CTRL-F8 and select the desired webpage for the query in a handy popup menu.

Here is video demonstration (turn on speakers):

If this feature should not work out-of-the-box in your configuration, update to the latest PhraseExpress version and download the free add-on that offers the “Smart Search” feature.

You can also add other websites of your choice. We will show you  how to do this in another video tutorial soon.

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