How do I turn off text replacement abbreviations

A long time ago I created some text replacement abbreviations. I put them on my mac, iPhone, and iPad. Now I want to get rid of some of them, but even after I've deleted them from all 3 devices, they keep reappearing. How do I get them out of iCloud permanently?

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)

Posted on Jun 13, 2018 4:51 PM

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ckuan

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Jun 13, 2018 4:57 PM in response to Laurie Leonard

Mac menu  > System Preferences... > Keyboard > Text > select and click the minus sign

Jun 14, 2018 8:12 AM in response to ckuan

Unfortunately, I have done that many, many times...deleted individual entries with the minus sign. But within a few days they reappear, and I can find no way to delete them permanently.

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