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Use OS X's Text Replacement
OS X includes its own rather rudimentary text-expansion capability, known as text
replacement.
To configure text replacement:
1. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Text ( Figure 13 ).
Figure 13: Set up OS X text replacements here.
2. Click the plus
button.
3. Type the text you want to type in the left-hand (Replace) field, and then type
the text you want to end up with in the right-hand (With) field.
Tip: Although replacement text can't include a Return character, you can
type Option-Return to include a line break.
4. Press Return.
Repeat these steps as many times as you like to add further abbreviations.
Once configured, text replacement is seamless: you type one of your abbreviations, and as
soon as you press a trigger key—Space, Tab, or Return, or a punctuation character—the
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