Comments on: Set Up Text Substitution in Mac OS X

By: Create an Instant Notepad in Any Web Browser Window

Create an Instant Notepad in Any Web Browser Window — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 20:51:12 +0000

[...] trick was found by Macgasm, and they offer a nice little tip idea if you plan on using it often: text substitution. That allows you to type something like ‘mknotepad’ to expand out the entire code [...]

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:40:25 +0000

Is there any way to import the 100s of shortcuts i have in a text file?

By: Nikolov

Nikolov — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:34:33 +0000

Mr. Man, your solution doesn’t work for me (I’m with Snow Leopard)

By: Trivs

Trivs — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:40:34 +0000

Followup: in MS Word, use Tools/Auto Correct to enable identical functionality.

By: Trivs

Trivs — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 21:08:35 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work in MS Office apps

By: riddletr

riddletr — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 14:07:07 +0000

Apparently this capability exists in the newer version of OS X because my 10.5.8 does not have this, at least I could not find it. If it is in 10.5.8, can anyone tell me how to find it?

By: Peter S

Peter S — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:52:28 +0000

Its a problem in big parts of Europe with 1/2, 1/3 etc it means February 1 and March 1 to

By: Logicalnot

Logicalnot — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:01:27 +0000

Arf. I am using texpander for those exact features.

Texpander allows you to paste pictures and formatted texts. But I never use those features.

By: Mr. Man

Mr. Man — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:30:34 +0000

Oh, one more thing, this only works in Snow Leopard.

By: Mr. Man

Mr. Man — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:29:59 +0000

You can enable them globally, just enter this into Terminal (/Applications/Utilities)
defaults write -g WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true