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TextExpander Receives Update for iOS 7

Posted April 3, 2014 at 12:31am by iClarified · 6328 views
TextExpander has been updated for iOS 7 and now users iOS' sharing view for Copy, Email, and Tweet actions.

Type faster on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch using short abbreviations that expand into long snippets. With TextExpander touch, you create a library of abbreviation shortcuts for snippets of text that you use frequently, such as addresses, URLs, and standard replies. Tap that abbreviation, and it automatically expands to the full snippet. (You can even insert today's date automatically with the default abbreviation "ddate"!)

Features:
- Compose notes quickly and easily that contain frequently-used text, addresses, phone numbers, email signatures, URLs, etc.
- Supported in over 25 apps, including Byword, Dispatch, Drafts, Fantastical 2, Launch Center Pro, TaskAgent, and Tap Forms
- Automatically insert your notes into Mail and SMS messages, or copy-and-paste into other apps on your iOS device
- Automatically insert today's date with the short abbreviation ddate
- Use Dropbox to sync snippets
- Add TextExpander snippets from your Mac via your local network
- Save composed notes in an archive for reuse
- Use multiple snippet groups
- Add Predefined Groups such as accented words, symbols, HTML, and CSS

What's New In This Version:
• Updated for iOS 7, which is now required
• Uses iOS’s sharing view for Copy / Email / Tweet actions
• Adds group info view
• Adds option to avoid expansion of specific groups on iOS
• Adds Organize button to snippet editor to move a snippet to another group
• Supports reordering groups in group list
• Adds snippet preview view
• Supports Dynamic Type in snippet editor
• Improves support for VoiceOver
• Adds support for hardware keyboard commands:
- ⌘+ and ⌘- increase and decrease the font size of selected text
- ⌘N creates a new snippet, group, or note
- ⌘Return functions as Done, or shares snippet or note
- Escape functions as Cancel
- ⌘T toggles between Notes and Groups
- up and down arrows navigate through the list of snippets or notes on iPad
• Adds swipe left to preview snippet from snippet editor
• Adds swipe right to return to previous view where appropriate
• Adds three finger tap to share snippet or note, two finger swipe left to copy
• Adds onboarding introduction

You can purchase TextExpander from the App Store for $4.99.

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