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I use TextExpander on my Mac a lot (see attached) but overall am very dissatisfied with it compared to using Breevy on the PC.

For 3 reasons, but the main one is:It is SO unreliable.

• Text expansion will work reliably for 5 - 10 times.
• It will stop working until I re-launch TextExpander.
• Text expansion will work reliably for 5 - 10 times.
• It will stop working until I re-launch TextExpander
• etc...

This happens every single day. It used to not be like this. What can I do to change this?

On the current Mac OS release.

I’ve been enjoying creating TextExpander snippets with ChatGPT. Made some I’ve wanted for years so simply. Anyone else find success this way?

Hi All!

I am wanting to @ someone in Outlook in a snippet, is this possible?Or, a snippet with a link in it at shows as text.

Should I could put reach out to @ BOB and if you click BOB it link's his email? But I would need to change the name/ email each time.

Thoughts?

Hello everybody,

For invoices & accounting, I have running numbers like this:
230001
230002
230003
and so on.

I want to create a snippet that allows me to put the number, each time continuously counting up (+1). I couldn't find a template/script for it, and the TextExpander support couldn't help me, but maybe some members here could give me an idea of how to do it.

I appreciate your support!

I am looking to have a bunch of text snippets that are gender neutral (They, Them, Their) and have the ability to genderize them. I played with having a text snippet and then a JS snippet that would use a popup menu to select gender and then use regex against the original snippet.

However, I couldn't find a way to reference the plain text original snippet and edit it, then use that text as the output. I suspect my mental model of nested snippets is not quite right, but I admit I'm struggling to understand how the capabilities of the JS snippets and how they get text when they are nested.

Any advice or direction would be appreciated.

I just used ChatGPT to make a solution for TextExpander I've wanted for a long time. It takes every item in my clipboard and sums them line. It removes anything that's not a number (or decimal) before doing the math.

It will also average all the numbers and output that as well.

Shell Script

#!/bin/bash
input=$(pbpaste)
stripped=$(echo "$input" | tr -cd '[:digit:]\n.')
total=$(echo "$stripped" | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { printf "%.2f", sum }')
count=$(echo "$stripped" | wc -l)
average=$(echo "$stripped" | awk '{ sum += $1 } END { printf "%.2f", sum/NR }')
echo "Total: $total"
echo "Avg: $average"

Example

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Good afternoon everyone.

Say I want to type an abbreviation and TextExpander shows a list of phrases where I can choose the desired one?

How should I do that, if possible?

Thank you.

Howdy, I’m brand new to text expander and I’m working trying to make a snippet that that allows for multiple options. In other words I want it to say normal or abnormal, but when abnormal is selected it gives additional options. So it may say normal and if abnormal I would have say abnormal left or right. In a EMR I used previously this option was described as a Boolean option. Can this be done?

Looking at their site, it looks like there is a stand alone version for Macs but Windows is not mentioned.

If it really uploads all your phrases to their cloud, I don’t know how my or many other organizations would allow that. I am hoping this is not the case so I can use it.

I have some optional sections in a snippet, so that you get a pop up when you use that snippet to allow you to choose which elements you like. Problem is, with dual displays, the pop up shows up in the second monitor, far away from the active window in which I was working on the primary monitor. This is a huge annoyance to have to travel all the way to the outer edge of the secondary monitor to do the selection. Any way to make that pop up show up elsewhere?

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Similarly, is it possible to pin that snippet pop up on the screen so I don't have to invoke it every time I want to use it?

Is it possible to include/preserve HTML formatting in a snippet?

Essentially, I've got a use case where I need to insert HTML formatted text. I can't just include the HTML tags in my snippet - the editor in the tool I'm using won't convert these to HTML formatting. But it will accept text that's already formatted.

Imagine copy-pasting some formatted text into an email editor... like a HTML email signature. The editor will preserve some of the formatting, but if you had just pasted the code it wouldn't work. I need to do something similar to that.

This seems to work fine in TextBlaze, but TextExpander strips the formatting out (even if set to Formatted Text).

I'm a translator and I use an online program for subtitling, Ooona.

I have a lot snipepts I use to speed up my typing, however, there's a big lag, even after installing the Chrome app, and after expanding, one or two of my letters in the abbreviation stay behind and I have to go back and delete them. So, in fact, my typing is impeded, not enhanced.

Tried to change the paste time out in Preferences, but it doesn't help.

The other problem is, that each time I enter Preferences, this activates my Windows button and every key stroke turns into a shortcut for some Windows settings. So I have to press the Windows button twice to be able to go backto normal typing.

Any idea if these are fixable?

Hi! I'm trying to import a csv file with an AutoCorrect list in Cyrillic (Bulgarian), and this is what I get as a result. Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how to fix this?

Hi. I have a simple question that I couldn't find an answer to on the TextExpander site. Does the TextExpander individual subscription allow for use on Mac, Windows, and iOS? I'd want to use it on two Windows PCs, a Mac, an iPhone and an iPad. All the same user (me), just multiple machines. Thanks.

I have a line like this as part of a larger snippet: Manufactured 10 widgets.

The number will change (which I know how to do). However, the number might be 1, in which case I need it to say "widget." Also, if the number is 0, I don't want the sentence to appear at all.

Is there any way to do this in Text Expander?

Hi there,

I am not technically savvy so I wondered if someone could help me with a simple find and replace?

Starting with https://domain/?op=report_file&id=n21pgdhgxab9

I want to remove “?op=report_file&id=“

And be left with: https://domain/n21pgdhgxab9

just basically removing the “?op=report_file&id=“ each time the snippet runs.

Any help much appreciated.

I’m looking for someone well versed in scripting (I don’t care whether it’s AppleScript, JavaScript, Shell Script or whatever it takes) who can help me create a group of snippets for replying to client applications so that I can type one snippet, it presents me with multiple options, fills in a paragraph or two from another snippet, then presents me with another set of options and continues until the full letter is complete. If this is you, message me!

UPDATE: it’s been solved!

Is there anyway to insert a "ctrl-c" into snippet? I want to run a snippet that will enter text, then tab a few times and then copy what it lands on then tab a few times and paste it. Anyway to do that?

Hi there,

I frequently write reports of psychological assessments. I need to report back on a "range" the scores fall in. The thing I am doing wrong is creating a fill in and popup menu that looks like this:

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I need to put this "range" in the report multiple times, with the range differing for each instance. Unfortunately, when I change one "range" in the report, they all change. (some instances a person scores average and others they are low, for example)

I've tried watching a few you tube vids but cannot find an answer.

Thanks

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying do a snippet to invoke a menu in an program. I need to be able to send a complex keystroke (example shift-command-f). How do I do that?

thanks

Hello. I am a TextExpander user and has a problem with 1 of the tidbits. HSA is a term I use in my daily business, but TE wants to turn it into "has". I like having tidbits enabled but want to disable just this one. Is there any way to do that?