Get access to a wide range of commands while working with text content.
WordService is a Mac utility that provides you with multiple text editing options. It might come in handy if you need to immediately insert the current time in your text, remove links from a paragraph, convert lowercase to uppercase, and so much more.
The application doesn't bring you an actual interface. Instead, it displays its options in almost every Mac app that supports text editing. They can be found in the main menu of the app in question -> Services. However, you must first enable the WordService profiles you need. You can do that from the System Preferences panel -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts. Simply check the services you need and the app will do the rest.
My only problem is that the descriptions of the supported text services from the System Preferences panel are truncated and you can't be sure which profiles to enable or not. The System Preferences window cannot be resized, so, you need to take a guess which is which as the WordService doesn't provide you with much help.
However, once you find and enable the needed service, you will notice how well this program works.
In conclusion, it's definitely worth installing this app on your Mac if you're the type of user who spends a lot of time writing and wishes to improve productivity. The program is free, simple to handle, and effective.
Pros
- Comes with a help manual
- Immediately applies the necessary text changes
- Provides you with multiple text editing profiles
Cons
- The descriptions of some services are truncated
WordService is a great package of small tools that are so handy when they are everywhere you can select text. For instance... my username is misspelled ("Practicaly") because Informer only allows 20 characters. WordService instantly showed that "Practically Speaking" is exactly 20 characters! (My kindergarten teacher will be relieved to hear.)It's not all sunny skies and a warm breeze, though. The name of each service begins with "WordService: " While I support the developer taking credit, the naming is inelegant at best (or, not Mac-like). It also prevents the individual services from sorting correctly with ones from other applications, which is quite distracting. Speaking of names, it would have been nice if DEVONtech had been more conventional with some. The awkwardly-named WordService: Initial Caps of Words is simply Capitalize everywhere in Apple-designed apps, or Title Case in an editor I use. That same legendary Mac text editor uses similarly clear and concise labels Capitalize Words/Sentences/Lines, and Title Case for those functions. Other services required some experimenting to see what they do, such as Encode Tabs — which encodes them as... what? The Reformat service sounds magical, though I was sure to experiment on throwaway text. At least Decode Tabs is next in the list so you can get them back easily.