How Does Word Finder do it?

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From: Neil Radisch
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1988 14:06

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Does anyone know how the DA word finder gets access to the highlighted word
in a word processing (ie MacWrite or MSWord) document. I am trying to
write a DA the works in a similar manner.
thanks


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