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Jungo

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Aug 1, 2007
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is there a app that allow me to program a key and paste in a few paragraphs of text into say an email responses ... I used to use quickeys but it long dead.

thanks
 
Instead of a hotkey, you can type say "ABC" and have it substituted or expanded into other text. Sort of like a shortcut in the text itself.

You can use System Preferences > Language & Text > Text substitution and set up custom autoexpanders such that if you type "\rtfm" it can replace it with paragraphs of text.

The grand-daddy of autoexpanders is TextExpander app, but its pricey.

If you really need a hotkey or keyboard shortcut, you can roll your own:
(1) Create an automator service which takes no input & just has one action "Get Specified Text". Set the text to whatever you want.
(2) Assign a shortcut to the automator action using System Preferences > Keyboard
(3) Select any text input area, hit the shortcut and the boilerplate text will be pasted.
 
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