Expand abbreviations into full text
Type a few letters and macOS writes your email address, your postal address or a phrase you repeat all day.
Works on: macOS Ventura 13 and later · checked on macOS Golden Gate 27
Published: · Source: Apple
Go to System Settings → Keyboard and click Text Replacements. Click the Add button (+), type the short text to replace and the full text it should become, then click Add and Done. From then on macOS replaces it as you type.
The trick is picking abbreviations you would never type by accident. A doubled
character or a leading punctuation mark works well: @@ for your email
address, ;dir for your postal address, ;tel for your phone number.
It also fixes your own typos. If you always type teh, add it with the as the replacement and forget about it.
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