Hello, Yes it is a part of OS X and IOS current versions. Not sure how long they’ve been there just look under keyboard preferences in OS x preferences, keyboard and on the text tab. For IOS in Settings, general, keyboard and the text expansion button.
Regards, Gena > On 17 Feb 2016, at 13:18, Anders Holmberg <and...@pipkrokodil.se> wrote: > > Hi! > Is this built-in to the mac and Iphone? > Or do you have to buy it somewhere. > /A >> On 17 Feb 2016, at 08:01, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk >> <mailto:a...@anarchie.org.uk>> wrote: >> >> Hello Gena, >> >> On the Mac, to add a string and substitution: >> • In System Preferences, press k for Keyboard and VO-Space to open that tab; >> • Select Text; >> • Press VO-Cmd-t to go to the table of substitutions; >> • Press VO-Down Arrow to get to the Add button; >> • Press VO-Space on the button and type your string; >> • Press VO-Right Arrow and type your expanded text. >> >> That’s it. To add a line break, press Option-Return. >> >> Cheers, >> >> Anne >> >> >>> On 17 Feb 2016, at 00:00, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk >>> <mailto:g...@gena-j.me.uk>> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Jonathan, >>> >>> That’s exactly what I want to do but do they get carried across all your >>> devices or do you have to enter them on each device you wish to use? On the >>> Mac You have to do a lot of VO navigation, after pressing the add button, >>> you have to VO 9 times. As for IOS, the focus seems to vary using my Apple >>> keyboard. So I purchased text expander and the touch version. But that is >>> great for bigger snippets. Have you found a quick way of entering >>> abbreviations on the Mac? I wonder if you use a lot of the braille >>> contractions? I had put them in my phone but then removed them because I >>> put a space after them. I used the semicolon for the 4,5 prefix and the >>> colon for 4,5,6, oh and the full stop as dot 5 or 6. >>> >>> Oh and I wondered have you found a way to put a line break, so you could do >>> things like postal addresses? BTW: Do you know what is the maximum >>> character length? >>> >>> I look forward to any comments and or tips you might have in respect of the >>> above. >>> >>> https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander/support >>> <https://smilesoftware.com/textexpander/support> >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> >>> Gena >>> >>>> On 16 Feb 2016, at 19:24, Jonathan Mosen <jmo...@mosen.org >>>> <mailto:jmo...@mosen.org>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi Gina, I use the text expansion built into Mac and iOS and it's a huge >>>> time saver. I've got a lot of three-letter abbreviations that result in >>>> expansion into very lengthy messages. It's great for inquiries I get >>>> regularly, and I like that once I get an expansion added, it's available >>>> on all my OS X and iOS devices. It rocks rather majorly I reckon. >>>> Jonathan Mosen >>>> Mosen Consulting >>>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training >>>> http://Mosen.org <http://mosen.org/> >>>>> On 16/02/2016, at 9:27 AM, Georgina Joyce <g...@gena-j.me.uk >>>>> <mailto:g...@gena-j.me.uk>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hello all , >>>>> >>>>> I wondered if any use txt expansion on their IOS or Mac? 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