Import your abbreviations from aText

Please proceed with the following steps to seamlessly migrate your aText snippets to Typinator.

Export your abbreviations from aText

  1. In aText, select the snippets you want to export.
  2. Right-click and choose "Export selected items for macOS's Text Substitutions" format.
  3. This creates a .plist file on your computer.

Context menu in Typinator on macOS showing options to create new snippets or groups and the highlighted command ‘Export selected items for macOS’s Text Substitutions’ — used to integrate Typinator snippets with macOS system text replacements.

Import your abbreviatoins in Typinator

  1. Open Typinator
  2. Click the actions tab in the main menu and select Sets > Import.
  3. Choose your exported *.plist file and import it.

After completing the import process, please quit aText to test your imported abbreviations with Typinator.

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