Typinator's auto-type and auto-correct features:

	Easy to configure - simply define your abbreviations, expansions, and boilerplates in a list.
	Simple to use - just type your abbreviation and Typinator will expand it - no special leading of trailing actuator required.
	Dockless operation - almost invisible, but always ready for use
	Organize your snippets by their meaning and purpose
	Built-in AutoCorrection sets with thousands of corrections for English, German, and French
	HTML snippets set with over 100 abbreviations for elements of the HTML 4.01 standard
	Predefined FileMaker functions set with over 350 abbreviations of all FileMaker 9 functions
	Set Options let you define individual settings per set
	Import from Textpander, TextExpander, TypeIt4Me, text files, and Typinator sets from other users
	Application-specific settings: Define which sets should be active in which applications, or disable Typinator for certain applications
	Set the cursor position within the expanded text
	Insert the current clipboard into the expanded text
	Works with any application
	Inserts the current date and time
	"Whole Word" expansion - optionally expand an abbreviation only if it is typed as an entire word
	"Types" pictures
	Preformatted text insertion
	Case sensitive expansion
	Search feature lets you instantly view only snippets that contain a specified search string
	Full Unicode support
	Plain application (no special service to be installed)

Whenever you are writing text, you probably find yourself typing the same words or phrases again and again. Whether this is your name, your e-mail address, the URL of your home page - or if you often need quick access to images like your signature, location map, or company logo.

Typinator is here to save your time by "typing" these frequently used text blocks (also known as boilerplates) and images for you. You just define your list of abbreviations once, and Typinator will automatically expand them as you type.

Typinator is also very useful as an auto-correction tool. Typinator comes with thousands of predefined corrections for common typos and misspelled words for the languages English, German, and French. Out of the box, it will automatically correct your misspellings - not only in MS Office applications, but system-wide in any application.

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To define an abbreviation, just add a new item to the abbreviations list, enter the abbreviation and the expansion text or paste the corresponding picture. You don’t need to confirm or save your settings; all changes take effect immediately.

Typinator lets you organize your abbreviations in sets.

You can use sets to...

• group snippets by their meaning or purpose (such as URLs, signatures, letter templates, code fragments, mail boilerplates, auto-corrections, Unix commands, etc.)
• import and export sets for sharing them with others or moving them to another Mac
• selectively enable or disable groups of abbreviations in specific applications

Typinator runs as a dockless application that is acting unobtrusively in the background. A small icon in the menu bar provides quick access to Typinator's main window.

Whenever you wish to configure Typinator or edit the list of abbreviations, just click the icon in the menu bar to open a full-fledged editing window with no limitations in size, functionality, and comfort.

Typinator comes with built-in sets for automatic correction of many popular typing errors in US and British English, German and French as well US and British versions of the freeTidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary with over 2300 additional corrections.

The auto-correction sets contain thousands of correction rules that have been carefully designed to fix typing errors even when you work with multiple languages. If you need to switch between English and French, just add both languages to your set list.

If you are typing German text, you will particularly enjoy Typinator helping you to switch to the latest language reform by translating many words and phrases according to the "Neue Deutsche Rechtschreibung".

Typinator comes with built-in sets for automatic correction of many popular typing errors in US and British English, German and French as well US and British versions of the freeTidBITS AutoCorrect Dictionary with over 2300 additional corrections.

Function names together with their parameters can now be inserted ultra-fast by typing a short abbreviation instead of tediously searching for them via popup-menu and long lists. This is particularly useful for all Get functions, where you normally have to switch to the proper category before you can select the desired function from the list.

The FileMaker 9 functions set is included in Typinator 3.2 and newer.

To start or end all abbreviations within a set with the same sequence of characters, just define a prefix or suffix.

Whereas other expansion tools offer only global trigger characters, Typinator gives you the flexibility to use separate prefixes and suffixes for different sets.

You can import...

• Typinator sets someone else has created
• Snippet files from Textpander, TextExpander and TypeIt4Me
• Tab-delimited text files containing abbreviations and their expansions

Of course, Typinator automatically imports all your abbreviations from previous versions if you already had older versions of Typinator installed in the past.

The Application Settings panel lets you fine-tune which abbreviations shall be expanded in which applications. With a few clicks, you can define that your Unix commands are expanded only in Terminal, your signatures and reply templates only in Mail, your URLs in Safari and Firefox, your code fragments only in Xcode, and your auto-corrections in all other applications.

Typinator lets you combine applications and sets in arbitrary ways, depending on your personal preferences. You can even use the same shortcut with different expansions in different applications. And if you need to entirely disable Typinator in a specific application, you simply disable all sets for this application.

Prepare a letter template with greeting and signature, insert the addressee's postal address from the clipboard, and set the cursor position immediately after the greeting. With a few keystrokes, Typinator prepares a complete letter for you. Well, almost complete - you still need to type the actual text, unless you already have other snippets for frequently used phrases.

To type the current date or time in your text, you can define expansion texts containing date and time symbols. Just insert date and time symbols from the menu and Typinator replaces these items with the current values upon expansion. Since you can compose date and time templates using the individual parts, you have full flexibility in how to format the time and date. If you work with multiple languages, you can also choose in which language the date elements should be inserted.

Inserting your predefined expansions is as easy as typing text. Just type the abbreviation and Typinator will expand it to the full text or picture.

Many users have already reported that they have switched to Typinator from other expansion tools because Typinator is so much faster.

No matter how fast you type and how many abbreviations you have defined: Typinator watches your keystrokes and expands abbreviations in virtually no time.

3000 auto-corrections plus 2000 custom abbreviations? No problem. You type at 450 keystrokes per minute and need to expand 65000 product codes into the corresponding product descriptions? Still no problem. Typinator quickly expands as fast as you type and helps you to increase your productivity even more.

Abbreviations are most useful when they are very short, so you can remember and type them easily. On the other hand, short abbreviations will more likely expand by accident if a regular word happens to begin with the same letters. For example, you might want to use "ty" as an abbreviation for "Typinator", but you don't want it to expand when you actually want to write "typically" or "tyre".

When you enable the “Whole word” option for an abbreviation, Typinator expands it only when the next typed character is neither a letter nor a digit.

Whereas the "Whole word" option is useful for short abbreviations that you type deliberately, you may want to disable it for word stems when you want Typinator to automatically correct typing errors.

Typinator can type more than just text. You can also define abbreviations that will expand to pictures. This is a great feature to easily "type" your own hand-written signature at the end of a business letter, or to quickly insert any other picture in your document.

In general, Typinator expands the abbreviation in the font and style currently used in your text application. However, you can also create formatted expansions with multiple fonts and even embedded pictures.

If a text block/boilerplate (such as the phrase "by the way") can appear at the beginning and in the middle of a sentence, you can tell Typinator to match the inserted phrase with the case of the typed abbreviation, so "btw" will expand as "by the way" and "Btw" will result in "By the way".