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When you create a "Formatted Text" expansion in Typinator, you can find a few formatting options in the tool bar, next to the abbreviation type. For more control ...

Suppose you want to insert the words "morning" or "afternoon" in an expansion, based on the current time of day. You can do this by combining the AM/PM marker with the built-in /Replace function ...

This can happen temporarily when you are typing in a password field. In this case, macOS disables monitoring of keystrokes to prevent malicious programs from stealing passwords.

Typinator comes with some great features for date and time calculation, which makes it easy to produce a date 5 days in the future with a few keystrokes...

Typinator can insert the current date in expansions. This feature is flexible because you can assemble the date in many different formats by combining various elements for month, day, and year...

To create dynamic parts of expansions, you can embed scripts in Typinator expansions. But there are many cool effects that you can produce without any programming knowledge, just by using Typinator’s built-in functions...

Typinator uses the notation {x} for time and date variables. In some cases, you may want to include such a pattern literally in an expansion and do not want Typinator to make a replacement...

Suppose you want to write an e-mail message with a clickable picture that contains a link to a web page. There are basically two ways to create pictures with links...

To find an item with a certain text fragment in either the abbreviation or expansion, you can open the Typinator window and enter the desired text in the search field...

When completing online forms, you will often copy information from one source and paste that into form fields and some web pages expect certain numbers to be entered without any separators...

We sometimes are asked why Typinator does not use explicitly defined keys or characters for triggering expansions...

You have this great abbreviation that translates "twso" into a text that describes this week's special offer. But whenever you write "twso" in a mail or twitter message, Typinator translates it, which is not what you want at that point of time...

Here is a cool trick that you can use to quickly store and recall arbitrary text fragments without any scripting...

Sometimes, you may find that Typinator's Quick Search command does not find what you are looking for because the desired item does not contain your search terms...

Input fields are a great way to customize expansions. Just use input field markers to define variable parts...

To fill multiple spreadsheet cells with Typinator, you can create an expansion that consists of multiple lines with tab characters to separate cells...

If you often create abbreviations that have the same case options or the same expand setting, consider creating a separate set for these items...

Typinator deliberately does not expand abbreviations that start in the middle of a word, even when you select "Expand on match". It is therefore likely that you get unwanted replacements...

The article "Input fields with default values" describes how you can preset input fields with default values. But there is much more about this feature...

Two of our products, Typinator and PopChar, need to transfer text and pictures to the active application. They use different techniques for this task. One of these techniques involves usage of the clipboard, which introduces potential compatibility issues when other utilities also process the clipboard...

In Typinator you can create powerful input forms for filling variable parts of expansions. Such forms are created from input fields that you define in expansions...

With Typinator, you can insert pictures in documents, as if you pasted them from the clipboard. However, this does not work as expected when you type an abbreviation for a picture expansion in a spreadsheet cell...

By default, Typinator stores your sets in a folder on your hard disk. If you want to share your sets among different Macs you can use Dropbox for this (currently we can only support Dropbox as a reliable sync solution).

Sharing Typinator sets with others is beneficial in a corporate environment because it significantly reduces the likelihood of mistakes and enhances overall productivity. Here's a brief explanation how this works in Typinator.

A copied text from word processors ends up in the clipboard along with formatting information. When inserting it in the style used in the destination document, a special paste command is needed...

Sometimes it is handy to repeat an abbreviation with form inputs until you are finished with your task. To trigger this without always typing the abbreviation again, you can use a small loop.

Follow these steps to import your aText snippets to Typinator.

Line breaks are often necessary to format text properly, especially when creating templates or expanding snippets. Depending on the app where the abbreviation is expanded, line breaks can be interpreted in different ways. Therefore Typinator offers diverse options to create a line break.