 | 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.
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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?
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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.
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| Oct 9 2007 |
JEDIK Yes, UB please! =)
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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?
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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!
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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.
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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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| Nov 22 2004 |
ANONYMOUS Turns TextEdit into a great word processor.
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 | Nov 3 2003 |
MARC NOTHROP An excellent addition to all OS X toolkits... this service turns any almost text editing field (must be service-aware) into quite a strong text editor. Great way to boost freeware, and very useful to web developers and power web users! Along with Safari's support for spell check in text fields, it also supports drag and drop, and services; combined with WordService, Mac users have extra, very useful features for browser-based apps (WinIE still doesn't offer spell check in text fields.) Also great for blogging and other posting systems (like UseNet clients, chat etc.), saving a lot of typing, and making formatting a lot easier.
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| Sep 21 2003 |
ANONYMOUS AMAZING! Keep it up! Works in panther.
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| Sep 3 2003 |
ANONYMOUS After installing WordService 2.5 on 10.2.6, the Internet Finder Preference Web panel settings for Home Page and Download folder were constantly being reset to defaults. Immediately upon removing WordService 2.5 these settings became stable again. My system has only a modest number of commercial applications installed and just a handful of free/shareware apps. Not many opportunities for conflict. If the author wishes, I will provide a system profile.
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| Jul 25 2003 |
VVV This is a must have to open .doc files. It can't display pics but the text is usable. TextEdit + this Service = a little word processor. On Windows you just have this stupid WordPad. OS X rules :-)
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| Jun 27 2003 |
JAMES LARUE I just installed Jaguar (10.2.6) on old G3 iMac. With WordService, TextEdit is a surprisingly capable word processor -- quick, responsive, and with all the features that most people will need for the usual home or office word processing functions. Also handy with Stickies. The "Services" idea is proving to be very handy, helping to make the Mac environment even more seamless in its integration among applications.
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| Jul 14 2008 |
MACBENUTZER TextEdit is fine for taking notes that you'll use only in soft copy. When I used Windows, I used plain text files for notes. With TextEdit, I can use proportional type. But I wouldn't use TextEdit for printing. The margins are enormous, and Apple will not let you change them. You can edit the RTF itself, but when you reduce the margins that way, good old Steve Jobs will just increase the font size so that the line breaks don't change, and you'll wind up wasting even more paper. For printing, I now use Bean. It's free, open source, just as fast as TextEdit, and you can safely change the margins.
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| Apr 12 2003 |
STAPH Every once in a while one discovers something really really cool about system 10: wordservice highlights the coolness of a system-wide services menu, with tonnes of cool and funky usefulness (like word counts - in the finder!) Together with AntiWordService (a ms word document opening service), one of Devon's other efforts, these make word-processing sans word pain-free.
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