Now you can quickly and easily perform an Acronym Finder search while viewing any page on the web!

What is it? If you have this feature installed, you can select/highlight the text of an acronym or abbreviation in Internet Explorer and then right-click. The image to the right shows how you would select FDA on a web page and then right-click to immediately lookup FDA on the Acronym Finder website.

To start using this, all you have to do is install a small file that makes a minor change to your Windows registry. You must be using a later version of Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer (version 4.0 or greater; Windows only) and you must have JavaScript enabled (this is the default).

Installing. To install this new feature in IE, follow these simple steps (this takes less than a minute, from start to finish):

1. Click here to download the small registry file. IE will show a File Download dialog. To install immediately, choose Open (or Run). To install later, choose Save. (To install later, you must remember where you saved this file so you can open it.)

2. When you Open the file you will get another dialog from the Registry Editor asking if you are sure you want to add information to the registry. Click Yes (then OK to the next dialog saying it's complete).

3. Completely close all instances of Internet Explorer.

4. Open Internet Explorer. You're done!

Using it. Highlight the text of an acronym and abbreviation in your browser window, then right-click the selection. You should see a menu similar to the one in the image above. Click Acronym Finder lookup... and Acronym Finder will show the results of your search.

You can also double-click the acronym or abbreviation to select it. Even if you get a leading or trailing space in your selected text, the Acronym Finder lookup... will still work.

If you don't select any text and click on the menu item, you'll be taken to the Acronym Finder main page.

Uninstalling. There's no harm in leaving this menu item installed, but if you ever want to uninstall it, just click here, choose Open (or Run) then click Yes when asked if you want to add information to the registry. Then you will need to close all instances of Internet Explorer, and then reopen IE to see that the menu item has been removed.

Please see this link for other ways to link to the Acronym Finder.