Hi everybody, my work requires a lot of manual typing so here comes text replacement in shining armor. I am thinking if there is any possible way to import a certain file which includes the text replacements to the settings of your Mac. 800+ of text replacements could be a paid of manually done and updating those regularly will be a nightmare.
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm not actually looking for help exactly with replacing texts". What I'm trying to do is to have a bulk list of text replacements (the text that will be replaced and the text that will replace) directly imported to the settings without manually inputting them. Let's say I have 800+ of those pairs of text replacements saved into a numbers file. I have to update this file every now and then and update the text replacements setting on my Mac accordingly.
Is there any way to update your Mac's text replacement setting in a couple of clicks instead of manually updating 800+ of text replacements?
The easiest way to do this would be to use Typinator to do your text expanding Typinator - the fastest text expander in town . You could take your text replacement list in numbers and export it to CSV, and then Typinator can import the CSV file.
If you are doing it just with system preferences > language and text > text, you'd have to get the .plist file that the abbreviations are stored in and change it, which is evidently ~/Library/Preferences/.globalPreferences.plist. Which is theoretically possible.
I'm afraid your English makes it difficult to understand what you need. Could you explain using an example?
What are you trying to replace in the text. Please give an example. And I can help out for free.
yes, they're in "NSUserReplacementItems"
Text Replacements
