I was hoping that there was some shortcut for the search bar in Dictionary.app. I tried ⌘+L as one can do in Safari, hoping it would work, to no avail. Does anyone know a shortcut for this?
MacOS – Shortcut for search bar in Dictionary.app
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The Dictionary.app supplied by Apple only has English and Japanese, regardless of what language you set your OS to. You can add modules as explained here:
http://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2011/12/more-dictionaries-for-dictionaryapp.html
Dictionary.app has nothing to do with spellchecking, that is done by other parts of the OS. You can change the spellcheck to Spanish in Apple apps by going to Edit > Spelling and Grammary > Show Spelling and Grammar.
Spotlight can do this. You just need to hover your mouse over the "Look Up" entry:
Best Answer
The default behavior for the Dictionary.app is that when it first opens the Search Field of the app's Toolbar has focus and one can just start typing.
If one then sets focus to a different part of the GUI, then obviously, focus is removed from the Search Field of the Toolbar, however if while the GUI has focus and one starts typing, then focus is automatically set back to an empty Search Field for the typing of a new query.