#Textexpander snippets library software#
#Textexpander snippets library series#

Check the radio button called URL Sharing and then click Publish In Public Groups. We’ll run this example from the web interface once more.ġ) Log into your TextExpander account via a Web BrowserĢ) Click on the Group that you wish to shareģ) Click on the Sharing tab and towards the bottom of the screen you will see a section called Public Sharing. This is an easy process, as you would expect. You may have a set of snippets that you have lovingly curated and you wish to share with the wider public or members of your own team. Any changes made to the Public Group by the owner won’t reflect in this duplicate you have created.

From here, you can use the Public Group as a base and add your own snippets as you wish. You can, however, Duplicate the group so that a copy of the snippet group appears in your own personal snippet library. It’s important to note that you cannot make changes to a Public Group, although you probably worked that one out already, being the astute reader that you are. When the checkbox next to Expand abbreviations is checked, click the drop-down and you will see the following options:

#Textexpander snippets library series#

In there you have a series of tabs and the option you need is under Expansion If you want to change this behaviour, then open up Preferences in TextExpander either by clicking on the Preferences button in the toolbar, or by pressing Shift and. So one of my most-used snippets is a date/time stamp that activates when I type xds - so as soon as I press the s key, the expansion occurs. By default, the expansion will take place when you enter the last character of the snippet. It’s a highly customisable product and one of the elements you can configure is at what point the snippet that you key in, transforms or expands into the new text. Or paragraphs, pages, weblinks, images - you get the picture!

#Textexpander snippets library software#

For those of you who don’t know, TextExpander is a great utility from Smile Software that allows you to type small pieces of text or snippets as they are known in TextExpander parlance - and expand them into larger sentences.