Text Replacement / expander

[joshthehappy]

A simple text replacement tool, my examples are from macOS and iOS, it is also a feature in Android.

Basically this feature: Text Replacements

On your Mac, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, click Keyboard, then click Text.

Another example: Third one down "Set up text replacement"

It's very handy if you have things you need to type regularly, and just typing one word and having my system fill in a whole sentence saves a lot of time and effort at work instead of keeping a copy past text file. I have many web addresses I send to customers and many full sentences for my notes at work that used repeatedly and this kind of feature is surprisingly missing from Windows.

Sorry to open a new issue for this, but my last one was closed already.

Apps like Fastkeys and Beeftext do this well - adding to Powertoys would be awesome.

https://www.fastkeysautomation.com/

https://beeftext.org/

[niels9001]

This would be super neat feature to have. Especially for the many abbreviations we use within our company :-)!

[saahmedm]

hi, this is a good idea @joshthehappy, not sure it fits into the current Keyboard Manager scope so tagged as new PowerToy but also as an enhancement because I could see it expanding KBM's capabilities

[joshthehappy]

hi, this is a good idea @joshthehappy, not sure it fits into the current Keyboard Manager scope so tagged as new PowerToy but also as an enhancement because I could see it expanding KBM's capabilities

Thank you very much for considering this option I have wanted this for a long time, and know it will be used daily by many people if implemented.

[Jay-o-Way]

This is like the auto-replace function in Office programs. Maybe we (or at least developers) can take a look at that functionality to get a head start. Maybe @crutkas has connections with the Office team?

[crutkas]

@Jay-o-Way office controls the input stack for their app where we would have to be e2e for all apps and be able to delete text and replace it.

this could be really hard to accomplish since someone could tab off and back on and i don't know if PowerToys could get the existing text. Example i type /sh, tab to diff app, then type, then tab back and type ug.

[laicasaane]

We should be able to build several replacement sets and easily switch between them (like changing keyboard layout by Win+Space). As I usually work on multiple contexts which require different sets of keywords.

And it would be more powerful if combined with auto-completion feature proposed here #6610