# TextExpander 8.4.5 — TextExpander 8.4.5

- Product: TextExpander (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/textexpander)
- Vendor: TextExpander
- Date: 2026-07-14
- Version: 8.4.5
- Original notes: https://cgi.textexpander.com/appcast/TextExpander-macOS.xml
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/textexpander/releases/8.4.5
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

What's New is an index, not a publisher: every entry below links to the vendor's own release notes, which are the authoritative source. Entries are labelled where they are hand-curated sample data, pre-releases, or drawn from a secondary source such as a developer blog.

Reuse: the summaries, labels and curation here are © What's New. Quote freely with attribution and a link back; wholesale republication of the corpus is not permitted — terms: https://whatsnew.fyi/terms. The vendors' own release notes remain their publishers'.

---

- **changed** — Inline Search now expands recent items when pressing Enter instead of opening the main window
- **changed** — Inline Search Shift-Tab behavior corrected and window size is now remembered
- **changed** — Switching a snippet to plain text now warns with an Undo link before formatting is dropped
- **changed** — Date/Time Math macro dialog now flags empty required fields instead of silently doing nothing
- **changed** — Keyboard focus now wraps from the last element back to the first in the main window
- **changed** — Snippet groups default to "(Untitled)" when you clear the name
- **changed** — Group-settings labels and button tooltips are clearer
- **changed** — Account menu items that open a page now show a loading spinner
- **fixed** — Restored the Return key for expanding a snippet from a fill-in pop-up menu
- **fixed** — Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a link from within the app
- **fixed** — Fixed snippets expanding twice in the Firefox "Save As" dialog
- **fixed** — Fixed Quick Search shortcut keys not working when navigating to Recents
- **fixed** — Corrected the window title when a snippet has no label or abbreviation
- **fixed** — Fixed the Repeat feature dropping a fill-in entry that contained email-formatted text
- **security** — Accessibility and Security Improvements

What's new in TextExpander 8.4.5
Improvements
- Inline Search: pressing Enter on a recent item now expands it instead of opening the main window, Shift-Tab behaves correctly, and Inline Search remembers its window size.
- Rich to plain text: switching a snippet to plain text now warns you with an Undo link before formatting is dropped.
- Date/Time Math: the macro dialog now flags an empty required field instead of silently doing nothing.
- Keyboard focus wrap: focus now wraps from the last element back to the first in the main window.
- Accessibility and Security Improvements.
- Other: snippet groups default to "(Untitled)" when you clear the name, group-settings labels and button tooltips are clearer, and account menu items that open a page now show a loading spinner.
Bug fixes
- Restored the Return key for expanding a snippet from a fill-in pop-up menu.
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening a link from within the app.
- Fixed snippets expanding twice in the Firefox "Save As" dialog.
- Fixed Quick Search shortcut keys not working when navigating to Recents.
- Other: corrected the window title when a snippet has no label or abbreviation, and fixed the Repeat feature dropping a fill-in entry that contained email-formatted text.