TE doesn't Expand Astericks?

TextExpander Talk
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I have a snippet and I want it to contain some asterisk symbols along with some text. Whenever I use the snippet, the text is expanded, but not the asterisk symbols. Why is that? Is there a way to make this happen?
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I have no issues with asterisks appearing post-expansion. But, just a thought… perhaps you are expanding within an app that may automatically then convert Markdown to rich text? So, for instance, **bold** becomes bold?

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This is most likely the answer.

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You know I think you’re right. The app that I’m trhing to expand in is a Constant Contact form. I’ll be the site is causing it to happen. Any workaround? (probably not…) Thanks for your comment.

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I mean, it’s quite easy to verify. Just expand in a plain text app such as Notepad or TextEdit to see if it’s same/different.

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Try adding a backslash \ in front of the asterisks and see what that does in those forms.

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Great idea, not sure why I didn’t think of that. Yeah, when I use the text expander in Word, the asterisks appear. So it must be a constant contact issue.

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That’s a forward slash though, right? In any case, that worked! Never heard of this workaround. What does the forward slash do?

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Glad it worked! It just cancels out the asterisk. My guess is Constant Contact uses Markdown (much like this forum does), and the \ cancels it out in Markdown.