It can also be used to expand long phrases or particular words by typing shorter abbreviations, for example you could type myeml to instantly type out an email address, and it can also be used to quickly type out emoji rather than digging around in Character menus.

Notepad 10.5.8 Mac OS Also

Getting this working is quite simple, but youll find that some apps in past versions of Mac OS also need the ability to use the substitutions enabled individually, not to worry, well cover that as well.

Generally, the substitutions are best used for phrases that are commonly used, sequences that are difficult to type, or for things like certain characters or alternate spelling thats are commonly flagged as typos.

Notepad 10.5.8 Mac OS X And IOS

Usability wise, setting up a replacement for typing out email addresses is a great trick and goes for both Mac OS X and iOS on the mobile side of things too.

This is easy enough, but oddly Apple has named it something different once inside the application, its called Text Replacement, and heres how to enable it.

Checking the box within this window for Text Replacement toggles the feature on and off directly, and also lets you use a nice Replace All feature to go through documents where substitution did not take place and them implement those changes.

Ive deleted the misspelled word which works until i restart my computer.

If I want to write makin bacon I will have to correct it two times before I get what I want.

Must I disable spell check each time I use slang Thanks in advance.

That allows you to type something like mknotepad to expand out the entire code.

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Notepad For Mac 10.5.8