Be careful not to enter common phrases like 'go' in the 'Replace' field as you only want trigger a replacement under specific circumstances.You also use smart quotes and dashes as described here. Be sure to type in the both the shortcut in the 'Replace' column and the longer text in the 'With' column.Click the + button at the bottom to add a new item.Open the Keyboard panel and select the 'Text' pane, which will show a list of text substitutions.Open System Preferences (it's in the Apple menu at the top of your screen).The first step to using text macros is to setup a few of them in the system preferences as follows: These macros allow you to type in a short string of characters, such as 'omw' and have those characters automatically replaced with a longer string such as 'On my way!' The feature is easy to setup, even easier to use and best of all, available without any additional cost since it is bundled into OS X. Text substitution is a useful OS X feature that has been around since Snow Leopard.
