Antidote 10 User Guide

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User Guide / Using With Your Other Software / Mac / Google Chrome

Google Chrome

Antidote integrates with Google Chrome by means of an extension which adds an icon to the toolbar and certain elements to the context menu.

Accessing Antidote’s resources

Select the text to correct or the word to be looked up, then call Antidote’s resources by means of:

  • the buttons in the toolbar:

  • the context menu (right click).

Configuration of Chrome’s context menu

Access to Antidote via Chrome’s context menu is similar to the standard context menus, except for one point: customizing this menu is done directly in Chrome, as follows.

  1. Right-click the Antidote icon in the toolbar.
  2. Click Options.
  3. Choose an option.
  4. Click OK.
  5. Close the options tab.

Updating the extension

Make sure you update the extension regularly.

  1. Click Chrome’s personalize icon in the upper right corner.
  2. Select the menu item "More tools" and then the sub-item "Extensions".
  3. Check the "Developer mode" box .
  4. Click the "Update extensions now" button.

Keyboard shortcuts

Action Shortcut
Corrector ctrl + + K
Dictionnaries ctrl + + D
Guides ctrl + + L