Can Text Replacement apply paragraphs, tabs, styles?

This has always worked for me until I recently upgraded from iOS 10.3.2 to 10.3.3. I would just copy my multi line email signature (for example) from an existing email in the mail app and paste that into the phrase section under text shortcuts. Since upgrading to 10.3.3 yesterday, only a few of my previous shortcuts showed up when I loaded my iPhone backup and no email signature was there. I tried doing the copy paste method I described above and it still keeps everything on one line for some reason which is really frustrating!

copying and pasting a block of text with line breaks into the Keyboard prefpane in Sytem Preferences works for me with OSX 10.12.6. my line breaks are retained in subsequent uses of the text replacement.

hth,

marc

On a iPad ? Incredibly yes, and no.

I put 123 Main St. Then filled it up with spaces until 123 Main St disappeared on the left then put New York. Then NY as my shortcut.

It opens properly in Notes but here and in email it open like this. 123 Main St. New York

In the Notes app.

You're welcome. My work around requires so much work to set-up I doubt it can be called a shortcut anymore.

Oops, hit the wrong button. more to come.

I have a copy/paste app that I wanted to see if it could be used instead of a keyboard shortcut. Unfortunately once again it worked in Notes but not here.

Oh well, back to the drawing board. 🙂

I did not read your post until after I searched... there seem to be many "clipboard management" apps (on Android, it is built-in - it comes in VERY handy for this stuff)

https://www.google.com/search?q=clippings+iOS+itunes&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

In desktop Firefox, I have an add-on called "Clippings" > http://aecreations.sourceforge.net/clippings/ <

it pops-up a window/panel with a list on the left and content on the right = pretty robust

Like Command-V ? I keep forgetting I have it. It combines app extensions and alternate keyboards into a way to keep copy/pastes on a iPad.

Unfortunately my screenshot won't post.

Not sure of exactly what you mean, amigo. No iPad to compare to ;-(

The stock clipboard on a computer is "one item" at a time.

My Android fone "came with" a thingy it calls a "clip tray" = multiple instances of things I have previously copied (all text, since I don't recall copying an image ever)

The Apps I saw as Goggle results seem to somehow integrate across apps - but I thought Apps were sandboxed to prevent "sharing" data - browser add-ons only work in the browser, but I can switch back and forth if I need to.

my ignorance is showing so I better shut my kimono.

Normally we have copy/paste then the next copy over writes it.

With Command-v you hold you finger on the globe icon on the keyboard then chose commad-v. I cropped the photo to see if it would post.

Another example of an app extention. Tao the share icon (box wih arrow) at the top of the screen then Bing translator to translate full pages right from the Safari app. This is how I read ES-ASC. App extensions are new with IOS 8 and a very big addition to the sandbox design.

As always I must thank and credit Tom Gewecke for the discovery of this feature.

CMD+V looks much like the Android "clip tray" functionality - much prettier (or is it?), of course - just recently copied stuff, or can you add stuff at will?

In clip tray, its everything including screenshots

Don't know how to extend your other iOS browsers -

tt2 discovered that Firefox iPhone is indeed not as "grown up" as its big brother when I asked him to see what this looked like on an iPhone

he said:

Sometimes I'd prefer to be wrong.

Command-v was waiting for me on Puffin. The extension must be part of an app, no internet apps or add on's. For iPhones Internet apps are bad, App Store apps and extensions good. 🙂

Apple is wise to save you from your own folly - self control cannot be trusted.

I sometimes break my replacement text into multiple parts, one for each paragraph. Each part ends with the first two letters of the shortcut for the next part. those are easy to spot because always at the end of each replacement part.

Then all I have to do is add at least one more character of the shortcut to the next replacement text....for as many parts as my text requires.

example

b1xx is a short cut for the first replacement text:

John Doe, 354 Anywhere Street, Podunk, NJ 07777 b2

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'b2' is the beginning of the shortcut to 'b2xx'. All I need to do is move b2 to a new line and add the 'xx' to prompt the new addition stored at the text for b2xx

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I find that any text that requires more than three such connections takes more time that another 'solution.'

Another solution:

Place long boilerplate as a note in the NOTES or ONENOTE app. Copy that text and try to copy nothing else until you have used it for all documents that need the boilerplate for this round.

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An even better solution:

Purchase more of your apps somewhere besides the Apple Store and notify the Apple Store that you will continue to do that until iOs provides the simplest solution, such as '^P' used in Word to trigger a new paragraph.

Apple is like any other corporate giant: it makes the basics and depends on the work of amateurs to do the dirty work in applications, with very mixed results. Most of the online 'help' from the amateurs relates to versions that differ from the version for which the end user is seeking solutions.