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Microsoft

May 20, 2020

Introducing sidebar search in Microsoft Edge

Hello Insiders! We have heard your feedback and are excited to announce sidebar search - the first step in our evolution of contextual search in the new Microsoft Edge. Sidebar search builds o...

rjpaulsen

Brass Contributor

Jun 25, 2020

mayusuf Is this where we leave feedback?

I really missed this functionality. Back when it said "Ask Cortana" I was hoping we'd see it as system-wide feature.

FEEDBACK I don't see is having an easier way to open it. At one time MS Word let you CTRL+Double-click (?) a word to open "Smart Lookup". Something similar would be nice here.

Bing lets you click a magnifying glass when you highlight a word. Do something similar would help discoverability of the feature.

mayusuf

Microsoft

Jun 27, 2020

rjpaulsen Thank you for using sidebar search and for your feedback! We have recently added a shortcut for sidebar search - Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows and Cmd+Shift+E on Mac.

We are looking into ways to make sidebar search invocation faster. You can leave feedback here or via the Edge feedback tool.

martmcd
Brass Contributor
Jan 03, 2021
mayusuf
Ctrl+Shift+E still not working on either the released version 87.0.664.66 or edge dev version 89.0.731.0
sidebar search works fine from the context menu
eguif
Iron Contributor
Jul 07, 2020
mayusuf
I try to use Ctrl + Shift + E and nothing happens. What basically should happen?
- mayusuf
  Microsoft
  Jul 15, 2020
  eguif Thank you so much for using the sidebar search feature! When you select a word and hold down Ctrl+Shift+E, sidebar search will show up on the side of the page. if you are having issues with the shortcut key, please leave feedback and we will look into it.
  - eguif
    Iron Contributor
    Jul 15, 2020
    mayusuf
    I tested by selecting a word on the site and then pressing the search shortcut Ctrl + Shift + E and it doesn't work
    Microsoft Edge Dev 85.0.564.8
    Windows 10 2004 19041.388
    State Brazil
    Language Portuguese-BR