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DESCRIPTION
WordService provides 37 functions to convert, format or speak the currently selected text, to insert data or to show statistics of the selection within all Cocoa applications (e.g. Textedit, Pages, Mail, Stickies, Safari or Xcode) and Carbon applications supporting services.
Commands:
- Reformat
- Remove line endings/multiple spaces/multiple feeds/quotes
- Remove attachments/links
- Trim line beginnings/line endings/lines
- Sort lines ascending/descending
- Shift left/right
- Initial Caps Of Words/Sentences
- All Caps/Lowercase
- Macintosh/Windows/Unix line endings
- Mac- to Windows-Encoding/Windows- to Mac-Encoding
- Encode/Decode tabs
- Straight/Smart quotes
- Rotate13
- Insert short/long date or date & time
- Insert time
- Insert contents of path
- Speak native/german text
- Stop speaking
- Statistics
WHAT'S NEW
Version 2.7:
- NEW: Universal binary for Intel and PowerPC Macs.
- Improved: More sophisticated reformatting of rich texts retains alignment.
REQUIREMENTS
Mac OS X 10.3.9 or later.
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| WordService User Reviews (17 posts) | Write A Review |
 | Jul 14 2008 |
MACBENUTZER BTW, 3 of these functions: all caps, all lowercase, and initial caps for words can all be done by creating a key bindings file. Learn how to do this, and there's a whole bunch of convenient things you can do. Unfortunately, this method does not let you define functions that can see what the text it's changing contains, so it cannot replace most of the great functionality in WordService.
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| Jul 14 2008 |
MACBENUTZER I love this new functionality, but I wish it wouldn't limit the Smart Quotes command to a single language per user. I use my computer for both English and German, and even though Smart Quotes can handle either, it chooses the language based on a single key in the info.plist file, so you can't set it up to give you both a "Smart Quotes English" and a "Smart Quotes German" function. Unless, of course, someone out there knows a way to do this.
(Version 2.7) | |
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 | Jan 29 2008 |
PEANUT BUTTER Reformat is the best feature EVER! This one piece does what other $30+ programs do..... for free. Other great tools in there too. | |
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 | Oct 24 2007 |
WHEELIE4 I tried this today on my intel macbook C2D. As the readme said, I created a new folder named "Services" inside my users "Libraries" folder and copied the "Wordservices.services" file into it then logged out and back in but I do not get any service menu when I opened a file in textedit. What I do wront?
(Version 2.7) | |
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| Feb 26 2008 |
D|DUMOND Same problem here on iMac Intel Core 2 Duo running 10.5.2
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| May 20 2008 |
MACBENUTZER I found your problem. Yes, it's a step backward, but in Mac OS 10.4, "Services" is not a menu on the menu bar. It's in the application menu (e.g., "TextEdit") under the sub-menu for "Services". It's intermixed with all of the other services. That makes it 1 step more work to use. So I would only use those that you can put on keys. BTW, I also discovered that the key shortcuts are disabled for those keys that are already used by the application. To fix this, redefine the shortcut to a key available in all of the applications you use it with.
(Version 2.7) | |
| Oct 9 2007 |
JEDIK Yes, UB please! =)
(Version 2.6.1) | |
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| May 9 2007 |
LEONCAHUN A universal binary would be welcomed (2.6.1 is noticeable slow on fast Core Duo's, e.g. when invoking the Statistics-service).
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| May 5 2005 |
ANONYMOUS WordService is very nice and it works perfectly with TextEdit and Safari in Tiger. But, it doesn't seem to work in Mail 2.0? I have tried it on two different Macs with the same results. Anyone else having this problem?
(Version 2.6) | |
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| Feb 11 2005 |
ANONYMOUS Good to have around ... very useful ... no problems (10.2.8). Thank you to the developers for making this available!
(Version 2.5.3) | |
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| Dec 16 2004 |
ANONYMOUS WordService is flat-out amazing; I've used it for a few years now, never a problem. If you have more than a certain number of Services available, there's a big with Services that might cause your Services menu not to work in Carbon apps (eg, the Finder). If that happens, the readme describes how to edit out some of the offerings in WordService that you might not use. Also, search out the Service Manager freeware; it disables app Services you never use. That tidies up your menu and fixes the menu in Carbon apps.
(Version 2.5.3) | |
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| Dec 16 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Are you using 10.3 or 10.2? I haven't had this problem since upgrading
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