keyboard "shortcut"...

on my iPhone, i found an option in the settings / keyboard where i can program a short string of characters to produce / suggest a sentence. (photo attached.)

does my macbook have an option like this? if so, it would sure be handy! if not, is there an 'app-for-that?'

Not sure you can do this with built in software but there are some utilities that produce the results you want. Here's one of them. http://smilesoftware.com/TextExpander/

System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > select use symbol & Text substitution > + type in whatever you want. e.g. I just typed in my initials in the 'replace' column & set my full name in the 'with' column. Works well.

text substitutions...

torchy said:

System Preferences > Language & Text > Text > select use symbol & Text substitution > + type in whatever you want. e.g. I just typed in my initials in the 'replace' column & set my full name in the 'with' column. Works well.

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thanks, torch.

i found the place to make this change, but it does not seem to work when i test it in pages. for that matter, the other substitutions that appear by default don't work either (like (r) and (c) and TM, etc.)

i do have the 'use symbol and text substitution" box checked. is there another option i'm missing somewhere?

I tested it in TextEdit which worked but I didn't check it in Pages where it won't work..
No idea why as all the default ones do.
Looks as if the third party option comes next.. sorry about that.

solved!......

torchy,

for some reason, it took a restart to take effect but it works now.

thanks for the help!

-andrew