Use Text Replacement to Write Faster

Many of us are slow typers, which means it takes a while to write everything we need. Fortunately, your Mac has a useful feature that might help you out with that.

This feature is called Text Replacement, and as you can guess by its name, it replaces some text you just wrote and writes a word or phrase that you set up before.

For instance, you could just write “BRB” on your keyboard, and when you press the space bar, your Mac will change it to “be right back.” This can be very useful for long words or phrases that you constantly use, and this is how you can set it up.

1. Open the Apple menu in the top left corner of your screen.
2. Go to System Settings.
3. On the left sidebar, scroll down to the bottom and click on Keyboard.
4. Under Text Input, click on Text Replacement.
5. Click the plus button near the bottom left to add a new word.
6. Next to Relpace, write the short version you want to use.
7. Next to With, write the complete word or phrase you want your Mac to replace the text with.
8. Click on Add.
9. Click on Done.

Now you can give it a try. Write the short text anywhere on your Mac, and then press the space bar. Your Mac will do the rest.