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there are certain phrases and words that you probably find yourself typing a lot like your email address your kids names or perhaps brief phrases like talk to you later and by the way most smartphones have ways for you to create your own abbreviations and acronyms for these commonly used words and phrases on the iPhone go into settings and then general and then select keyboard from there you can add shortcuts maybe you want to use the code EML for your email address so now every time you type EML your complete email address will be entered same goes for someone's initials in place of their full name TTYL for talk to you later this can really be a huge time-saver and efficiency booster and you won't have to worry about misspellings and important names or details like your phone number you can also do the same on an android phone go to settings then language and keyboard settings and then multitouch keyboard settings to make your changes synt or see you next time in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News