Official documentation
Replace text and punctuation in documents on Mac (text replacements)
Apple Support, Mac User Guide, n.d.
Read the originalRead on October 16, 2026
- What it is
- Apple's Mac User Guide page on automatic text replacement. It gives the System Settings path, the Add step and the option to apply a replacement to existing text.
- How much weight it carries
- Official Apple documentation for macOS with System Settings (macOS Ventura 13 or later). Earlier macOS versions used a different path.
Facts taken from this source
- Apple's Mac steps: open Keyboard settings, click Text Replacements, type the text to replace and its replacement, then click Add.
“Click in the dialogue that appears, type the text to replace (such as teh ) and its replacement (such as the ), then click Add.” (Create text replacements)