Overview
SuperLookup is your unified concordance and research hub, bringing together all lookup resources in one place. It’s a top tab in Workbench (🔍 SuperLookup), alongside Editor, TMs, Termbases, Clipboard, Voice, and Settings.
Opening SuperLookup
| How | Shortcut | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| From the translation grid | Ctrl+K | Selects the 🔍 SuperLookup top tab; selected text is used as the search query automatically |
| From any application (system-wide) | Ctrl+Alt+L | Select any text in any app, press the shortcut, and Workbench opens with the SuperLookup tab forward, text pre-filled, and the search auto-fired. The sub-tab it lands on is configurable – see Configurable landing tab below. |
| From any application (system-wide) | Ctrl+Alt+Q | Opens the QuickTrans always-on-top popup with parallel translations from every enabled provider. Different from SuperLookup – use SuperLookup for terminology lookup, QuickTrans for fast MT options. |
| Via the system tray | Right-click the orange Sv icon → Open SuperLookup | Useful when the global hotkey is taken by another app |
Configurable landing tab
By default, Ctrl+Alt+L lands on the Termbases sub-tab. You can change this in SuperLookup Settings → “Ctrl+Alt+L lands on” – pick from QuickTrans, TMs, Termbases, or Web Resources. The choice persists across restarts. Whichever sub-tab you choose is fired immediately on the hotkey; the others are deferred until you actually navigate to them, so you don’t pay the cost of work you may not look at.
Tabs
TM Matches
Search your Translation Memories for similar text:
- Fuzzy matching with percentage scores
- Horizontal (table) or vertical (list) view toggle
- Source TM column shows which TM the match came from
- Search direction: Both, Source only, or Target only
Glossary Matches
Search your termbases and glossaries:
- Shows Source, Target, Domain, Notes columns
- Right-click to “Edit in Glossary”
- Direction and language filters (Both / Source / Target + From/To)
Machine Translation
Get instant MT from multiple providers:
- Google Translate, DeepL, Microsoft Translator
- Amazon Translate, MyMemory, ModernMT
Configure providers in Settings → MT Settings.
Web Resources
Quick access to online reference sites: IATE, Linguee, ProZ.com, Reverso Context, Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Google, Google Patents, Juremy, AcronymFinder, BabelNet, and more.
Web resource tabs maintain login sessions between searches, so you stay logged in to sites like ProZ.com.
Search controls
Language filters – use the From and To dropdowns to filter by language pair. Auto-populated from your TMs and termbases.
Search direction – Both searches source and target columns; Source and Target restrict to one side.
Search box – type a query and press Enter (or click 🔍). When Ctrl+K or Ctrl+Alt+L opens SuperLookup, the selected text is placed in the search box and the search runs immediately.
Tips
- Double-click a result to copy it to the clipboard.
- Right-click a result for additional options.
- Press Esc to hide Workbench back to the system tray once you’ve grabbed what you needed – Esc unconditionally dismisses from SuperLookup, regardless of whether you were typing in the search box.