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7. The Menus / 7.4 The Layout Menu

### 7.4.32 Text/Edit Text Shortcuts and Activate Text Shortcuts

When typing text there are often expressions like "Best regards" or special characters like"©". The expressions are much to long for repeatedly typing and the keyboard shortcuts for entering the special characters are much to complicated to remember, so one always has to search them in the character table.

In order to solve these problems, there are Text Shortcuts. Text Shortcuts consist of two parts. The first part is the shortcut, that should be easy to remember and has to be typed in the text. The second part is the text, that will appear after entering the shortcut plus a single space. An example: after typing "br " (the space at the end is important) there appears "Best regards".

Edit Text Shortcuts allows to manage the Text Shortcuts. New ones can be created and existing ones can be edited or deleted. A Text Shortcut can not only contain but it can also have a font or a color.

Text Shortcuts are very useful. Nevertheless there may be situations, when you don‘t want to use them. Therefore they can be turned off and on by using Activate Text Shortcuts.