![]() ![]() Right-click a word, or highlight a group of words and right-click them, and from the menu that appears, select Smart Lookup. Word then uses Microsoft’s Bing search engine to do a search on the word or phrase and displays the results in the a pane that appears on the right side of the screen. (In Word 2016 this is called the Insights pane, while in Word 2019 it’s the Smart Lookup pane, but they work the same way.) Microsoft says that Smart Lookup uses the context around the words, not only the words themselves, to give you more relevant results. The pane is divided into two tabs at the top - Explore and Define. (For some odd reason, in some searches the web search is at the top of the page, in other searches the Wikipedia section is, and at other times the Bing image search is.) IDG By default, when you use Smart Lookup, it shows the Explore tab, which includes a Bing image search, a web search and an Explore Wikipedia search. The results of a Smart Lookup for gravity waves. (Click image to enlarge it.)Ĭlick any result to go to the web page that is the source of the results. When you click an image in Bing image search, you’re not sent to the individual image, but instead to a page full of the results of the Bing image search. However, the image that you click will be the first image on the page. In the web search, the first result is often a Wikipedia entry, followed by a variety of other results. For example, when I did a search on “coal mining,” the Wikipedia entry was first, followed by information from the World Coal Association. Similarly, when I searched for “gravity waves,” the first two results were from Wikipedia, one for “Gravitational wave” and other for “gravity waves.” In instances like this in which there’s more than one Wikipedia entry, Wikipedia gets its own section in the Smart Lookup pane, followed by web search. Each of the sections in the Explore tab has a More link underneath the results. ![]() If you’re not pleased with the results of a search, I suggest doing the search again, because you might get different results. ![]()
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