Keyboard macro app

I need an app that will do autotext for me. Like for example lets say I want a signature for posting on this board. I could create one, and then type in the word signature and the text would show. MS Word has such abilities but I need something for the entire OS. There used to be a very good app back in the OS 9 days but I am not sure if it still exists. can this be done for free in SL or do I need third party software?
John

This is built into SL. Go to System Preferences -> Language & Text -> Text and set up your substitutions there. The only gotcha is that you've got to enable text substitution in any apps you want to use this with... it's off in most things by default. Supposedly you can enable it globally with the following Terminal command:
defaults write -g WebAutomaticTextReplacementEnabled -bool true;
I guess I shouldn't have said "the only gotcha" above, as another is that it may not work in all apps. But at least it's free!

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