Fortunately, in OS X Lion, you can choose which ones are visible. In fact, there may be too many to make using the Services menu practical. Can I cut down the number of things I see there?Ī: If you have a lot of applications, you may have a lot of services. Also, some applications don’t support services: this is the case for Microsoft Office 2008 Office 2011 does support them, though.
This can be text or graphics in an application, or even files in the Finder. In general, services function when you select content. With nothing selected in TextEdit and Pages, for example, I see only the option to take a screenshot or import an image. This is because services are contextual what you see depends on what’s selected. Q: Where’d all my services go? I don’t see anything in the Services menu.Ī: If you don’t select anything before you access the Services menu, you might find the menu is empty or has very few options. So unless you are sure the service you want is in the contextual menu, you’re better off using the menubar menu. You’ll see only some services there not as many as in the menu bar Services menu. Right-click, or Control-click, on selected text in a document, and you’ll see either a Services menu near the bottom of the contextual menu, or simply a list of services (this depends on the application).
What you see in your Services menu will depend on which applications you have installed on your Mac.Ī: You don’t always have to use the Services menu to access services. I can search in Dictionary, Google or Spotlight I can add the text to Literature and Latte’s Scrivener, make a new sticky note, or a new note in Bare Bones Software’s Yojimbo or I can send the text to Mail to make a note or an email. For example, BBEdit -> Services.As this screenshot shows, the Services menu allows me to do many things with selected text-all without leaving BBEdit. They’re found in the Services submenu of the menu named after the application. Services are grouped in categories, and have application icons next to them.
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