Using the Services Menu

I don't know how to make this work. Say I want to use Grab, I go to Services, select Grab, and the submenu is grayed out. so I open Grab and repeat, and the Grab submenu is still grayed out.
yeah, I know it's been there forever, but I'd like to use Grab easier than opening it manually.
Thanks.

Personally, I think the Services menu is the most useless thing ever put together by Apple. How it functions is not at all intuitive, leading one to the conclusion that it does NOT Just Work. The Grab Service is a case in point. AFAIK, one of the few occasions when the options are available is if you have a TextEdit document open, and the said document is in RTF format. Then the Grab service will be available. The Grab service does not work in Finder. It does not work in Preview, but in Preview you can access Grab in the File menu (evidently the software engineers who wrote Preview realized that one would want to use Grab with Preview, but that you couldn't do so thru the Services menu, because of the way Services works, so they added it to Preview's own File menu). Insane.
The general principle of Services is that it will only work in programs that support Services, and the program in question must be able to handle whatever-it-is that the service does. Finder won't open a png file in a new window, thus no Grab service. Ditto for most programs. In the case of Preview it will handle png files, but it has no mechanism for creating a new window. So no Grab Service. And so on.
Francine
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Remember this?
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Doesn't look like there is a direct way to do it.
The services are all Bundles, which is easy
enough to fake -- just copy one from /Library/Services
to ~/Services and modify the plist. Put your shell
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course].
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listens on, the data type it receives, and so forth.
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