Google-docs – How to get Google Docs to auto-substitute an equation

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In Google Docs preferences it lets you set up a table of shortcuts in the form of substitutions. For example if you type (c) it will automatically replace it with the copyright symbol ©.

Google Docs also lets you insert an equation (not really an equation, but a mathematical expression of any sort).

Is there any way to get it to replace certain text with an equation? I tried copying an already-inserted equation into the With field in the substitution table, but simply doing that didn't work—it just stripped my equation down to the letters that were in the expression.

Here is a snippet from inside a document that might better illustrate what I'm looking for.
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Best Answer

The character substitution works with any characters you can manage to type with a keyboard.

I just created an auto-substitution that replaces =x with x + y = z and it works just fine.

Just open the "Preferences" menu while in your document and the values you need in the "Replace" and "With" blocks as needed.

Note that it's pure text substitution. It can't do anything else like change fonts.

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