I love Snow Leopard Text Substitutions! Check this out!

TheSpaz

TheSpaz

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Check out the attached image. I think this might come in handy… although, I'm already really used to capitalizing things, so I don't know how well it's going to work out for me… hah!

Anyway, look at my snazzy list.

Oh, and by the way, now I can say Snow Leopard is Snappy™!
 

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sidewinder said:
Too bad this feature does not work in all, or even most, applications.

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Really? What applications does it not work in? I'm not making fun of you, I'm just curious.

Anyway, some more I added to my list:

SL : Snow Leopard
mac : Mac
i : I
im : I'm
itunes : iTunes
ichat : iChat
quicktime : QuickTime
photoshop : Photoshop
iphoto : iPhoto
dvd : DVD
bluray : Blu-ray
blu-ray : Blu-ray
tm : Time Machine
cod4 : Call of Duty 4
finder : Finder
isight : iSight
macrumors : MacRumors

Note: If you wanna be REALLY annoying, set "iPod touch" to 'iTouch" ;)
 
...or you could use textpander which this capability is pretty much ripped off from, and it's a whole hell of a lot better!

Glad apple brought it to the masses though.
 
How come I can't get this to work in Pages? :confused: Is there something I need to specifically setup?

EDIT: Had to enable it in the Preferences for Pages
 
agentphish said:
...or you could use textpander which this capability is pretty much ripped off from, and it's a whole hell of a lot better!

Glad apple brought it to the masses though.
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I've had this functionality since about Mac OS 8 with a little background application called TypeIt4Me, and still use it every day now in Mac OS 9. I think there is (or was) also a Mac OS X version.

As well as the capitalisations being posted here, it's great for repetetive things like your email address, e.g. typing b-b auto-expands to my Buzz Bumble email address while e-m auto-expands to my real name email address.

I also use it to auto-expand the company names that I do a lot of work for, e.g. typing GGI or ggi could auto-expand to Gadgets & Gizmos Inc.

:)
 
MaskingTape said:
I'm really upset that the text replacement doesn't work in iChat :-( or apparently Safari either
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It's working in iChat and Safari for me. You have to right-click in the field, then go to "Substitutions>Text Substitutions"

Once you've enabled it, it stays enabled. Try it out! It works in every iChat conversation too.
 
Ah ha! I thought it was automatically enabled. Stupid me for not looking into it further. Thanks for the tip! Working fine now!

EDIT - Seriously tho, it should be enabled by default, don't you think? Or at least mention on the text replacement panel that it has to be enabled per program.
 
Now they should add some more useful things like Auto Capitalize after a period and add a period after a double space bar tap.
 
Totally agree with the double tap spacebar idea. I use that all the time on the iPhone, would make sense to have it on OS X as well.
 
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