On 7 Aug 2013, at 02:29, Þorvarður Davíðsson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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> I tested Pages, and it is like you said, it doesn’t work. Strange. 
> 
> I wonder, what is this feature for, if it doesn’t even work in Pages, that is owned by Apple??
> 

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An application must have, under Edit, a Substitutions:Text Replacement submenu (and it must be checked) for the text substitutions listed in System Preferences:Language & Text:Text to work.

NWP does not use this System feature and, therefore, does not have Edit:Substitutions:Text Replacement menu.

Pages has its own independent substitution feature which has all the default text replacements found in System Preferences repeated in its Preferences>Auto-Correction Preferences. The ‘Symbol and text substitution’ box must be checked.

Hamid