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TypeIt4Me Help

Get to know TypeIt4Me

This guide will explain how TypeIt4Me works and outline its core functions so you can get up and running in no time. It’ll show you how to tweak the app’s settings to your liking and have TypeIt4Me help you accomplish tasks faster. If you’re new to text expansion or even if you’ve used a similar product before, it’s a good idea to start here. Browse through the index below to get an overview of everything the original text expander for Mac has to offer.

A screenshot of the main TypeIt4Me window showing a snippet that contains a date and a time stamp

Basic Usage

What is TypeIt4me?

An overview of the main TypeIt4Me app window

Abbreviations, snippets and sets

How to get TypeIt4Me to type something for you

How to stop TypeIt4Me from typing stuff for you

Where and when does TypeIt4Me type?

TypeIt4Me Settings (Global)

…Wow, you made it all the way down here? Yep, it’s quite a long index and it may look daunting at first blush, but not to worry. You don’t need to read through every section in depth, line by line and absorb everything. If you’re reasonably Mac-savvy you’ll probably be able to hit the ground running and get pretty far just by experimenting on your own. The interface and general mechanics should feel quite familiar to anyone who’s used Apple’s Mail, Notes and text replacements before. That said, we’d still recommend that you at least skim through these pages to get an overview of the basics before diving in to the app.

As you explore TypeIt4Me’s more advanced features, you’ll probably want to better understand how they work and get them to do exactly what you want. Click on TypeIt4Me Help in the app’s menu or click the ? button in the app window to come back and look things up here when you need tips on achieving specific outputs.

Struggling? Don’t suffer in silence. Get in touch.

Of course, if you’re really stuck with something that’s perhaps not covered in the TypeIt4Me Help guide or if you think you’ve run into a bug we might not know about, you’re more than welcome to contact us via the Support page. We will typically respond within 24 hours.*

*Please bear in mind that there are only two of us, operating from London in the United Kingdom, which may be in a different time zone to you (GMT/BST). At particularly busy times you might not hear back from us immediately and we do sometimes treat ourselves to a day off at the weekend, to avert burnout.