In my last software tutorial, we viewed comments from specific reviewers in Microsoft Word. Today, we’ll look at how to quickly search within comments in Microsoft Word without having to search the whole document. For added efficiency, this tutorial includes an option to search all comments or limit the search to comments from specific reviewers.
I'm trying to understand how the ' Smart Lookup ' ( define) is missing from the right click menu in Microsoft Word (O365) V 1911. It was definitely there at one point but now has been missing for months. I can see synonyms and translate but I do not have the ability to get the definition of a word from the right click menu. Or, to look up a phrase, tap once on a word, tap Select from the menu that appears, and then drag the selection to include the phrase you want, and then tap Smart Lookup. The Smart Lookup pane opens with more information about that word or phrase, including definitions, Wikipedia articles, and top related searches from the web.
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Microsoft today announced Smart Lookup, a nifty new feature in its Office 2016 software suite. The feature automatically finds information on the Web using Microsoft’s Bing search engine without forcing users to open up an Internet browser and run a search manually.
Once you enable the tool — by selecting it from the right-click menu or typing “Smart Lookup” into the Tell Me box — it sits on the right side of the screen in Office applications like Outlook, PowerPoint, and Word.
“Smart Lookup lets you fact-check and learn more about terms contained in emails and other documents without leaving your Office app,” the Bing team wrote in a blog post on the news. “Select the text in question and Smart Lookup uses the surrounding content to deliver contextually relevant results, including Bing’s great image results, web searches and more.”
This builds on Microsoft’s earlier efforts to integrate Bing into Office. Back in December, Microsoft announced Insights for Office, which allowed people to search with Bing while using Word Online.
More generally, this fits into Microsoft’s attempts to turn Bing into an intelligent application component. Microsoft’s Cortana personal digital assistant taps Bing for certain queries in Windows 10. The Bing knowledge and action graph API provides information from Bing for third-party developers to use, while Bing for Android now provides contextual web search and deep links into other apps without requiring you to switch out of the app you’re currently using.
Google has been working on this same functionality with Now on Tap. And earlier this month Google announced the integration of Google search into Google Docs. Importantly, the capability works on Android mobile devices.
Note that when you use Smart Lookup in Office 2016 apps, you’re letting Microsoft have a look at some of the words in your documents. “To bring you relevant information, we send data to Bing that includes your highlighted term and some highlighted content,” Microsoft says when you turn on Smart Lookup for the first time. The company provides links to its privacy statement and then prompts you to click “Got it” to get the feature running.
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