# Text Blaze fails to insert snippets if I correct the text

**URL:** <https://community.blaze.today/t/text-blaze-fails-to-insert-snippets-if-i-correct-the-text/64982>\
**Category:** Questions and Help\
**Created:** [July 13, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/text-blaze-fails-to-insert-snippets-if-i-correct-the-text/64982 "2026-07-13T20:25:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Happy\_user](https://community.blaze.today/user_avatar/community.blaze.today/happy_user/32/18604_2.png) [@Happy\_user](https://community.blaze.today/u/Happy_user)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/text-blaze-fails-to-insert-snippets-if-i-correct-the-text/64982/1 "2026-07-13T20:25:44Z")

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If I type a /longsttring and correct it to /longstring, Text Blaze will FAIL to substitute the snippet. To work properly, I cannot miss a single character.

Why is that?

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**Author:** ![scott](https://community.blaze.today/user_avatar/community.blaze.today/scott/32/30_2.png) [@scott](https://community.blaze.today/u/scott)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 7:14am UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/text-blaze-fails-to-insert-snippets-if-i-correct-the-text/64982/2 "2026-07-14T07:14:40Z")

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Hi, and welcome to the forum! 🙂

Text Blaze does support backspacing and retyping characters if you make a mistake while typing a snippet shortcut.

It does not support changing the location of your cursor and then continuing to type the shortcut. Doing that would make it much harder to differentiate between when a user is typing a shortcut (and we should replace it) and when a shortcut happens to appear in a doc (but shouldn't be replaced).

So if you make a mistake in the future, you can backspace until you've deleted the typo and then type the rest of the shortcut.

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**Author:** ![Happy\_user](https://community.blaze.today/user_avatar/community.blaze.today/happy_user/32/18604_2.png) [@Happy\_user](https://community.blaze.today/u/Happy_user)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2026, 4:52pm UTC](https://community.blaze.today/t/text-blaze-fails-to-insert-snippets-if-i-correct-the-text/64982/3 "2026-07-14T16:52:59Z")

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Great, good to know the proper way! Thanks.