Two Keyboard Questions

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Two Keyboard Questions

Just got a new iMac this week have two questions related to keyboard use.

First, what setting do I need to make so that the first letter in the first word of a sentence is automatically capitalized?

Second, I have several text replacements that I setup thru System Preferences, Keyboard, Text whereby two letters are replace by full words. When I try to use them in Mail, the two letters are not replaced with the words I specified. What else do I need to do in order to make this work?

iMac 21.5", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jun 9, 2019 12:03 PM

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Tom Gewecke

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Jun 9, 2019 1:47 PM in response to Joey C 2

Joey C 2 wrote:

When I try to use them in Mail, the two letters are not replaced with the words I specified. What else do I need to do in order to make this work?

Have you gone to Edit > Substitutions and made sure that Text Replacement is checked?

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Allan Jones

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Jun 9, 2019 12:17 PM in response to Joey C 2

1) That is usually handled through individual app preferences, as in this older version of Word:

2) Not sure on this one but is the computer logged in through iCloud? When I bought a new Mac last fall my subs in the Keyboard prefs were all on my old computer which was extremely dead. However, when I checked on the new Mac, all my text subs appeared. It certainly seems that they were stored and shared through iCloud.

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Joey C 2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 12:58 PM in response to dialabrain

Both functions work fine in Pages. They also work fine in Mail on the iPhone. Where they do not work is in Mail on my new iMac and my wife's new MacBook Pro -- both of which we got last week. So, different machines and different users, but still a problem with Mail.

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Joey C 2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 1:54 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

That did it, Tom, thanks! Funny that it does not show the words below the abbreviations, but typing the two letters then hitting Return does put the words in. Thanks again. Now I just need to figure out how to automatically capitalize the first letter in every sentence.

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Tom Gewecke

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Jun 9, 2019 1:56 PM in response to Joey C 2

Joey C 2 wrote:

J what setting do I need to make so that the first letter in the first word of a sentence is automatically capitalized?

Is there also a box to check for Capitalization in your System Preferences/Keyboard/Text pane?

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Joey C 2 Author

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Jun 10, 2019 2:40 PM in response to Joey C 2

Finally solved the problem with first letter in a sentence not being capitalized in Mail! Needed an Apple Tech Supervisor to find the answer. Within Mail, type a few words and highlight them. Right click and go to Spelling and Grammar. Make sure two items are checked -- Check Spelling While Typing, and Correct Spelling Automatically.

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dialabrain

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Jun 9, 2019 12:35 PM in response to Joey C 2

They both work fine in Mail here. How are your Mail > Preferences > Composing set?

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Joey C 2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 12:25 PM in response to Allan Jones

Thanks, Alan. It does appear that both functions work fine in Pages. They do not work in Mail. Any way to fix that? I do not see any settings that would help there.

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Joey C 2 Author

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Jun 9, 2019 12:43 PM in response to dialabrain

My settings have been identical to what you have shown, but those functions don't work in Mail for me, only in Pages.

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dialabrain

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Jun 9, 2019 12:52 PM in response to Joey C 2

Then I don't know, sorry. They don't work in Safari either?

I would test in Safe Mode and/or in a different user account. Do the default text substitutions work?

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dialabrain

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Jun 9, 2019 1:10 PM in response to Joey C 2

I don't know what to tell you, it works in Mail on all my Macs running Mojave. Since your Macs are so new you have 90 days free Apple Phone support. Give Apple a call.

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