Hi!
I actually started to prefer Keyboard Maestro for that. So I can also use their palette features, which is great.
For example:
I used to have the following expansions:
;ccn = Cheers, Chris
;ccw = Have a great weekend. Cheers, Chris
and about 10 more. You get the idea. Kept only using 1-2 since I kept forgetting all the others.
Here comes why I prefer Keyboard Maestro.
I created all 10 with the ;cc short cut. Then gave them all descriptive names - now whenever I type ;cc Keyboard Maestro Pops up a pallete with all of them and I just need an additional character and have the one I want. But I got the Pallete as a reminder which ones there are.
Cheers,
Chris