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GD4Word (Google Dictionary for Word) does one simple thing: Select a word, and press CTRL+ALT+D, a Google Dictionary window will open displaying the definition, translation and examples of that word.
GD4Word is a Word Macro and it only works inside Microsoft Word.
GD4Word is a free version of Google Translate for Translators, a program that seriously increases translation speed by adding Google Translate to TRADOS, Word and all text applications.
Click to download the installer that will automatically adds CTRL+ALT+D to your Word.
In case you want to do the coding yourself,
In Word 2003 and under,
Go to Tools–>Macros—>Visual Basic
Right click on “Normal”, and choose “Insert”—>”Module”
Paste the following code to the newly inserted module.
'code start Public Declare Function ShellExecute Lib "shell32.dll" Alias "ShellExecuteA" (ByVal hwnd As Long, ByVal lpOperation As String, ByVal lpFile As String, ByVal lpParameters As String, ByVal lpDirectory As String, ByVal nShowCmd As Long) As Long Sub Gdictionary() Dim SLan As String Dim TLan As String Dim SText As String Dim Gurl As String SLan = "en" TLan = "zh-CN" SText = VBA.Trim(VBA.Replace(Selection.Text, Chr(13), "")) Gurl = "http://www.google.com/dictionary?langpair=" + SLan + "|" + TLan + "&q=" + SText + "&hl=en&aq=f" Debug.Print Gurl ShellExecute 0&, vbNullString, Gurl, vbNullString, vbNullString, vbNormalFocus End Sub 'code end
Then you can assign a keyboard shortcut to the macro: Gdictionary().
This code works when the source language uses ASCII characters only. If you want to make it work with pairs like Chinese to English, you will need to utf-8 encode your source text string.
“en”, “zh-CN” are shortcodes for the source language and the target language. You need to change them to your pair.
Google language short codes:
auto=Auto Detect,af=Afrikaans,sq=Albanian,ar=Arabic,be=Belarusian,bg=Bulgarian,ca=Catalan,zh-CN=Chinese (Simplified),zh-TW=Chinese (Traditional),hr=Croatian,cs=Czech,da=Danish,nl=Dutch,en=English,et=Estonian,tl=Filipino,fi=Finnis h,fr=French,gl=Galician,de=German,el=Greek,iw=Hebrew,hi=Hindi,hu=Hungarian,is=Icelandic,id=Indonesia n,ga=Irish,it=Italian,ja=Japanese,ko=Korean,lv=Latvian,lt=Lithuanian,mk=Macedonian,ms=Malay,mt=Malte se,no=Norwegian,fa=Persian,pl=Polish,pt=Portuguese,ro=Romanian,ru=Russian,sr=Serbian,sk=Slovak,sl=Sl ovenian,es=Spanish,sw=Swahili,sv=Swedish,th=Thai,tr=Turkish,uk=Ukrainian,vi=Vietnamese,cy=Welsh,yi=Y iddish
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October 27th, 2009 at 4:06 pm
Gr8 man! nice tool!!