Menus : The Services menu

The Services menu

The Application > Services menu (where 'Application' is the name of the frontmost application) allows access to special commands published by other applications, such as TextEdit or Safari, or by services extensions such as DEVONtechnologies' WordService or CalcService. Also, DEVONagent Pro publishes its own services in the Services menu.

The Services menu

The Services menu is a sub-menu of every application's application menu, the menu named after the application itself and carrying the About X, Hide ... and Quit commands. Services usually act on a selection, e.g., selected text or files.

Services provided by DEVONagent Pro:

Lookup: Opens a new search window in DEVONagent Pro with the query field pre-filled with the selected text. Use this command to quickly search for a selected piece of text.
Open URL: Opens a selected piece of text as a URL in DEVONagent Pro. Use this to quickly select a URL, e.g., in an email message, and open it in a DEVONagent Pro web browser window.

Use Application > Services > Services Preferences to change keyboard shortcuts or hide selected commands to clean up the Services menu.

Note: After installing DEVONagent Pro you may need to log out and back in again for the Finder to recognize the new Services menu commands and shortcuts. If one or more DEVONagent Pro Services menu commands does not have a keyboard shortcut assigned to them, perhaps another application grabbed it. OS X automatically assigns the correct shortcut when no other application asks for the same key combination.