“Surprise! Mountain Lion has a great new secret feature: basic text expansion. Here’s how to set it up and some handy shortcuts to get you started,” Adam Dachis reports for Lifehacker.
For a demo of how it works and how to set it up, check out the video below.
Dachis reports, “First things first, let’s get text expansion (or Substitution, as Apple calls it) set up.”
To get it set up, either watch the video up top or follow these steps:
1. Open up System Preferences.
2. Choose the Language & Text section.
3. Click the Text tab.
4. Press the + button at the bottom-right corner of the window.
5. Type the shortcut you want to use in the left text box, and what you want that shortcut to expand to in the right box.
6. Repeat as desired.
Dachis reports, “Now for some phrases you should add right now…”
Read more in the full article here.
Oh, Apple. Why must you do this to developers of cool apps?
Text Expander is still way better.
They didn’t add this in Mountain Lion, it was there in Lion. I’ve used it for at least a year, and it works pretty well.
Right. This was in Lion.
Also Snow Leopard…
Does not work in any text apps on my iMac, or in Macmail.
Color me stupid.
Since upgrading to Mountain Lion, MDN comments are taking 3 or 4 minutes to show up. Before, it was immediate.
Is this common?
That one was immediate. So I’m a liar.
That one was immediate. So I’m a liar.
This one not so fast.
Sometimes, MDN comments are taking 3 or 4 minutes to COMPREHEND…
LOL!
Yuk Yuk.
Jean, I don’t think it has anything to do with the OS. In Lion as well as Mtn. Lion I’ve had varying lengths of time before comments were posted. Some immediate, others a few minutes. I’ve decided to simply post a comment and move on. If the thread has an interesting topic, I’ll drag the URL onto my Desktop so I can catch up with later comments.
Same thing happens under Tiger and Snow Leopard.
I think the matter is with MDN’s servers, and not the audience’s clients. I’m guessing that at some times, their servers are under more load, and updating the comment database is a lower priority task than serving pages to be read.
AND in Snow Leopard. But not in Tiger…
nothing new to see here
this has been a part of OS X for a long time
why is this even a post today?
is this mactips.com?
not a high quality newsworthy post
Well. I know A LOT about Mac, but this one seemed to not have come my way until now. So I appreciate the post. Just what I needed and have missed. 🙂
According to Snow Leopard Help for this feature, “In some applications, such as iChat, iPhoto, Mail, Safari, and TextEdit, you can automatically replace text with other text or symbols.” So, nothing new, but, maybe, other apps are supporting it now.