TextExpander 2.8 for Mac

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• Price: Free to try $29.95 to buy
• Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6/10.4 PPC/Intel/10.5 PPC/Intel
• Date added: December 02, 2009
• Total Downloads: 130
• Downloads last week: 2
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CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on July 28, 2009

TextExpander is a popular and reasonably priced autotype/autocorrect program, a productivity-enhancing piece of software designed to save you time and keystrokes by automatically typing out frequently used words and phrases (such as signatures and greetings) and instantly correcting your typos. TextExpander's nearly invisible interface is simple: you type a short, user-specified abbreviation, and the app expands the abbreviation into a longer "snippet," whether a word, a phrase, or even an image or an entire e-mail. (You can even prompt TextExpander to execute a chunk of AppleScript.) You can customize your snippets and manage them in groups, and TextExpander comes with several groups built in, including ones for HTML and CSS, as well as a TidBITs AutoCorrect Dictionary with over 2,400 common misspellings. You can also embed snippets within snippets, for example to insert the correct time or date.

TextExpander works across all your applications, or you can set the program (or just particular snippet groups) to work only in certain applications. You can use a menubar drop-down to view and enter snippets. Extensive preferences let you search and sort through your snippets and tweak TextExpander to match your work style, with options for different expansion delimiters and hot keys, to create new snippets and to turn TextExpander on and off.

Overall, TextExpander has solid functionality and lots of nice extras, including the capability to sync snippets between multiple Macs with MobileMe, and collaboration-friendly features that let you share and automatically update snippet groups via a single URL. It's definitely one of the best options available for this type of app.

Publisher's description

• Insert standard greetings, text, and signatures, including formatted text and pictures
• Save keystrokes by typing simple abbreviations to get long snippets
• Organize snippets into groups
• Add snippet groups from external files and online sources
• Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer
• Correct typos automatically
• Sync snippets via .Mac
• Print snippets by group
• Type special characters without launching the special characters palette
• Position the cursor wherever you want in your expanded snippet
• For programmers, make editor-independent code templates and invoke AppleScripts
• Import from Textpander, TypeIt4Me (v2 & 3) and Typinator (v1)
• Available in English, German, French, Japanese and Italian

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