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3. What websites or URLs or docs does it work on?
The text in any website page (not a graphic).
An email you have received or are writing
Optional: You can make it work on Google Docs if you change the way you activate it in Options.
Open your extensions on your browser
For Chrome:
Click the puzzle piece icon to the right of the search bar
Select the “pin” icon next to the Blue Canoe icon to pin it to your search bar
Click the Blue Canoe icon that now appears on your search bar
A dialog box appears that says “Extension Options”
The default is that you double click a word and then right click to get the Dictionary
Alternatively, you can select “Immediate: Show the popup as soon as a word is selected”. If you get the Dictionary popping up too frequently, however, you can also add, from the “trigger” drop down menu, a key such as “Alt/Option”, which means you would click Alt+select to make the Dictionary pop up.
Note: the default action of double click + right click doesn’t work on Google Docs, so you can change the action everywhere to be something else.
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4. How much does it cost to have the Blue Canoe Dictionary on my computer?