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Grouping dictionaries

The dictionary grouping feature allows users to easily organize installed dictionaries. You may want to use this feature, for example, if you have dictionaries for many languages. In this case you could organize your dictionaries by language, so that, looking up the word "application" in English-Spanish dictionaries, you don't get entries from French or German dictionaries. And even if you have dictionaries for only one language, you may still want to create several groups of dictionaries to organize them by subject or, say, separate computer and Internet slang dictionaries from universal dictionaries.

To quickly create a new dictionary group:

  1. Open dictionary preferences either by choosing TranslateIt! > Preferences and then selecting the "Dictionaries" tab, or by just clicking the "Dictionaries" button in the toolbar
  2. Choose New group from the drop-down list below the dictionary list
  3. Type the new group's name when prompted, and
  4. Click "OK".

After you have created a new dictionary group, tell TranslateIt! which dictionaries this group should include by checking them in the dictionary list, and which ones should get lost by unchecking them in the dictionary list.

Tip: To quickly check all dictionaries in the list, click ; to uncheck all of them, click ; to check only selected dictionaries, click .

To quickly delete a dictionary group:

  1. Open dictionary preferences
  2. Choose the dictionary group you want to delete, and
  3. Click next to the drop-down list.

Note: Deleting a dictionary group does not delete included dictionaries.

If you need more power, you can use the dictionary groups manager that allows managing dictionary groups and their contents easily.

See also

Installing dictionaries
Sharing dictionaries
Reordering dictionaries
Deleting dictionaries
Managing dictionary groups
Dictionary filtering