# SuperLookup Overview

SuperLookup is your unified concordance and research hub, bringing together all lookup resources in one place. If you've used **LogiTerm Pro**, the idea will feel familiar: one search box across your termbases, translation memories, and web resources.

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](/help/quicktrans/overview.md) 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

#### Termbase Matches

Search your termbases:

* Shows Source, Target, Domain, Notes columns
* Right-click to "Edit in Termbase"
* 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.

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### Related pages

* [QuickTrans](/help/quicktrans/overview.md)
* [TM Concordance Search](/help/superlookup/tm-search.md)
* [Termbase Search](/help/superlookup/termbase-search.md)
* [Machine Translation](https://github.com/Supervertaler/Supervertaler-Help/blob/main/workbench/superlookup/mt.md)
* [Web Resources](/help/superlookup/web-resources.md)


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