Import from QuicKeys?

[peternlewis]

I would encourage you to use some of these macros:

Create Text Expansions Macro

Here is a macro that lets you create simple text expansion macros. Simply fill in the text of the action with lines like: trigger:text where trigger is the Typed String trigger you want and text is the text you want to expand to. Then select all the actions and click the Try button at the bottom to run them once and it will create a macro for each expansion. There is no trigger on the macro since its not going to be a macro you want to run except occasionally. Note that to create a new exp…

Macro to Create a Text Expansion Macro from the Selected Text

Here is a macro for creating a new text expansion macro from the selected text. Select the desired text, trigger the macro (by default it is with a Status Menu trigger, adjust as desired), enter the trigger text when prompted and the macro will be created. Updated using version 8.x AppleScript facilities. Note that although it attempts to encode the HTML entities, the requirement is that it actually be XML entities, and so it will not necessarily work well for non-ASCII text. Create Text Exp…

New Text Expansion From Selection [using KM8 features]

This is a variant on @peternlewis's Create Text Expansion From Selection macro. What it does It creates a new text expansion macro from selected text (as plain text). The macro runs only with KM 8 or newer. How to In any application, select the text you want to create an abbreviation for. Launch the macro via hotkey Enter the abbreviation in the user prompt. You'll see the abbreviation field pre-populated with a semicolon ;. This is the default abbreviation prefix and you can change it in…

To either create a bunch of text expansion macros or to create expansion macros on the fly.

That makes the task of creating the expansions relatively painless, though it is still going to be tedious dealing with 400+ of them.