If you’re a slow (or moderately slow) typist like myself, Text Expander is a great utility.  I’m in the middle of a doctoral thesis and I find myself typing the same phrases again and again – like “Stone-Campbell Movement” or “Lord’s Supper” or “Independent Christian Churches and Churches of Christ.”  Text Expander lets me set up a few key strokes, like “SCM,” to trigger a long phrases like “Stone-Campbell Movement.”  So every time I enter a the letters “SCM,” Text Expander types the phrase “Stone-Campbell Movement.”  My fingers are expansively happy.

You can use it for long phrases as well – like email signatures or typical boiler plates – anything you might use on a regular basis.  This is a keyboard-shortcut fiend’s best friend.

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