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7 Mac Tricks You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

These will make you master macOS

#1. Preview Links Quickly

Gif from System Preferences ⚙️ < Trackpad

I discovered Quick Look when I was quite frustrated that day (don’t remember why) and pressed the Trackpad a bit hard. Then, the definition of the word behind the pointer popped up.

For definitions

Word from FluentU (This, and all the images below are screenshots by the author)

So, if you don’t know the meaning of a word in a doc or pdf, just hover the pointer over it, and press the Trackpad harder than usual i.e., Force Touch (you can feel two jerks while doing it).

This replaces the longer process of:

• Selecting it,
• right-clicking it, and
• hitting Look Up .

You may try it with Gobbledygook, right here.

For links

If you’re in a sea of links (e.g., Wikipedia page), do the same to a link to “preview” it.