You can find out more about that one back in episode number 202. Two of them are typinator which you can get here. There are a lot of other programs that do this as well. So you can get text expander from Smile on my MAC. There are also a lot of hot keys that you can set and updates and backups that you can set in the preferences as well. You can also have it sync with either drop box or MobileMe so you can buy the family pack and have the same text expander snippets across all of your MACS. It appears as an item in the menu bar here as well. There's a large set of preferences which is exactly how you want text expander to work, different options for it to helping you to correct things like capitalization. You can even have it paste in bits of rich text which can include font information, style information and images. There's a whole bunch of things including adding math, adding references to other snippets as well, adding special keys, all sorts of different functionality. You can specify some more things like that using this menu here at the bottom. For instance, if I type over here Ttime, it replaces it with the current time and Ddate, it replaces it with the current date. You can see in the examples here how some of them have things like an address on several lines there. But you can also specify it to only work in specific programs or to work in every program except for some programs. This works with any program at all in the MAC. And now when I go back to text edit, and I type the abbreviation, it gets replaced with the text. And then, I can add in an abbreviation right here. I can easily add a new one by clicking on new snippet and then type whatever it is I want here on the right. And you can see it over here on the left. So there's a bunch of examples that are preinstalled, but I can select this first one which is one I added, and here is the text I want put in place of this abbreviation right here. So if I run text expander I get a list of all of the abbreviations and the texts those replace. So what happened is text expander which is running on my Mac basically listened for those four specific characters typed one after another and then replaced those with a longer piece of text. I'm going to type MNVP and immediately see that's been replaced with the MacMost Now video podcast. Sp text expander is a program that allows you to type just a few characters and then expands that to mean something else. On today's episode let's look at the typing shortcut program: text expander. Check out MacMost Now 495: Typing Shortcuts with Text Expander at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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