![]() So I'm going to search for Prompt and I'll come up with Ask for Input. Let's remove the Date and instead have it prompt us for what to actually place there. So if I use it again you could see now it's updated for the new minute. It will always be the current date and time. This could be super handy for pasting the date into spreadsheets or using it in messages or anything you want to do. Now I get the date and time in that location. So now in the Mail App I'll just use the same keyboard shortcut. So you want to check all that before you try to use a shortcut to make sure everything is linked properly. So you see Current Date is fed into Format Date and the output of that is fed into Stop and Output. I could also set it to None if I don't want the time at all. Let's just go and use Long for now and leave Time format as Short. You can try all of these including Custom which allows you to use standard little internet date formats here, like that. Under Date Format there's a variety of different formats that you can choose from. If I click on Show More you can see I can set the Date and Time format, and the location. So it's going to get the Current Date and then format it. In order to have that become text I'm also going to get Format Date right here and put it afterwards. I'm going to search here for Date and I'm going to grab the date, put it there, and it's going to get the current date. Let's do the date, the current date, instead of this. But a shortcut allows you to do some more useful things. You don't necessarily need to create an entire shortcut just to have text put in a location. However, you could use Text Replacements for that. It could be a whole paragraph or several paragraphs. Of course this text could be much longer than this. Now you can see I can easily enter that text anywhere that I'm typing in an app like Mail, Text Editor, or Pages just by using that keyboard shortcut. Let's delete it and let's try to use the keyboard shortcut. So when I use it here you could see it inserted the text perfectly. I find that that works better because sometimes the keyboard shortcut doesn't take effect right away until you use it here first. I'm going to use it the first time here in the Services Menu. You can see the keyboard shortcut as well. I'm going to check first that under Mail, Services it is there. Then it's going to create this piece of text and output it. At the top here it says Receive any Input from Quick Action. I'm going to use Shift Command and then the quote key as my shortcut. When I do that it's going to add Use as Quick Action and Services Menu because its going to need that for a shortcut. ![]() So I'm going to click here to Add Keyboard Shortcut. Let's call this Insert Text and let's assign it a keyboard shortcut to make it really easy to use. So wherever I have the text cursor it should place whatever I have in here. In this case since all I had there was the text action it's going to link it so that it's going to Stop and Output the text. I turn that On and it's going to add this action at the bottom. The key to doing that is going here to the Settings and then looking for Provide Output. Let's say I want to actually place that wherever the text cursor is. This just allows you to type a piece of text. If you don't see it you can search for it. One of the things you could do with a shortcut is create a piece of text. Make sure you're using at least this version or newer to have all these features. So, I'm using macOS version 12.3 and this is the version of Shortcuts I'm running. Let me show you a bunch of different ways that you can use this. This could save you a lot of time and could be a useful productivity tool. So one of the handy things you can do with the Shortcuts App is to insert text right where the text cursor is located. Join us and get exclusive content and course discounts. There you can read more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is brought to you thanks to a great group of more than 1000 supporters. Let me show you how to insert or replace text using a shortcut on your Mac. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out Inserting and Replacing Text With Shortcuts at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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