Create snippets

Included in: Grammarly Pro, Plus, Business, Enterprise, and Grammarly for Education plans
Managed by: Admins, account managers, and users (personal snippets only)

Snippets are phrases, sentences, or even whole paragraphs that you can quickly insert into your text to save time on writing. Snippets are available in Grammarly for Windows, Grammarly for Mac, and the Grammarly browser extension.

Topics covered in this article:

• How do I create a snippet?
• How do I create an advanced snippet?
• How do I create collections of snippets for different user groups?
• How do I use a snippet?
• How do I edit or delete a snippet?
• How do I customize my keyboard shortcut?
• How do I turn off snippets?

How do I create a snippet?

You can create a snippet in three different ways:

1. Go to the Snippets page and click Create snippet in the upper-right corner:
   
   
2. Go to the Snippets page, click on any collection (Organization collection is available by default), and click Import list in the upper-right corner. You will see a prompt to download a template, which you can fill with the list of phrases commonly used for writing in your organization. Once the template is filled in, click Next in the same window and upload the file.
3. Press \ while typing with Grammarly for Windows or Grammarly for Mac to open the snippets menu. Click Create snippet and fill in the name and the text of the snippet.
   
   

Note: You can create an unlimited number of snippets. When importing a list of snippets, you can create 1,000 snippets at a time.

If you have an individual Pro subscription, you can extend the power of advanced features to your teammates by adding more seats to your subscription. This helps your team stay consistent, save time, and focus on high‑value work. Go to the Members page to add your teammates.

Team members with the admin and account manager roles can create personal snippets and snippets for the whole organization or specific user groups. Team members with group manager permissions can create personal snippets and snippets for the user groups they are assigned to manage. Team members with the user role can create snippets that are available only to them.

You can choose who can access specific snippets by assigning a snippet collection to a corresponding user group. You can also change this setting later when editing the snippet.

Note: Grammarly Enterprise admins can create a custom role that grants permissions to manage snippets for the whole organization or specific user groups, but without full admin privileges. You can learn more in this article: About custom roles

How do I create an advanced snippet?

Advanced snippets streamline repetitive content, allowing you to customize it as needed, which boosts your speed and consistency across large-scale projects.

Note: Advanced snippets are available only in Grammarly Enterprise and Grammarly for Education plans through the Grammarly browser extension and Grammarly for Windows.

To create an advanced snippet, click Create snippet in the upper-right corner of the Snippets page and select the advanced snippet icon in the Snippet content window that opens next:

As you create an advanced snippet, select the content options that best fit the template you’re working on. There are five content options available:

• Dropdown menu lets you prefill instructions and options to select from the dropdown list while using the snippet.
• Text input adds a text box to your snippet for entering your own text, highlighting where it should be inserted in the template.
• Expandable content loads additional information from another snippet depending on the selected option.
• Name & email inserts your first name, last name, or email automatically.
• Date & time automatically inserts the current date and time.

How do I create collections of snippets for different user groups?

1. Navigate to the Snippets page.
2. Click Create collection in the upper-right corner.
3. Fill in the name of the collection and choose who should have access to it:
    

Once a collection is created, you can populate it with snippets by choosing the corresponding option when creating a snippet from the Snippets page as described above.

While writing, team members will have access only to personal snippets, company snippets, and snippets of the user group they belong to. 

To assign snippets to user groups, you must create at least one user group. For more information on how to create user groups, please see this article: Organize team members into groups
 

How do I use a snippet?

To use a snippet while typing with Grammarly for Windows or Grammarly for Mac, press \ to open your snippets library. In this library, your snippets will be sorted by frequency of usage.

Use the up and down arrow keys to browse your snippets or continue typing to search for a snippet by name or keyword in the content. For example, if you type “\late”, you’ll pull up the snippet “I’ll be a few minutes late. My previous meeting is running over.” 

To insert the snippet into your text, click on the snippet or press Enter.

How do I edit or delete a snippet?

You can edit and delete snippets from the Snippets page. Choose a collection, and click on a snippet you’d like to edit. To delete, move, or duplicate a snippet, click the three dots icon.

Team members with the admin and account manager roles can edit, delete, and move their own personal snippets, the organization’s snippets, and snippets assigned to different user groups.

Team members with group manager permissions can edit, delete, and move their own personal snippets and the snippet collections of the groups they are assigned to manage. They cannot delete or modify the organization’s snippet collections or snippets assigned to other user groups.

Note: The group manager permissions are available only to Grammarly Enterprise customers.

Team members with the user role can edit only their personal snippets. If you are a member of a team plan and you cannot use or create personal snippets, it means this option has been turned off by an admin.

How do I customize my keyboard shortcut?

To set a different keyboard shortcut for inserting snippets, please follow these steps:

1. Go to your Home page.
2. Click on the Your account tab and choose Feature customization.
3. In the Assign shortcuts section, assign a new keyboard shortcut. Choose a character that you don’t normally use when typing.

You can also customize your keyboard shortcut when you type. Press \ to pull up the snippets window, click on the three dots, and choose Edit shortcut.

How do I turn off snippets?

To turn off the snippets feature for your account, go to the Feature customization page and switch the toggle next to Snippets to off:

Additionally, team members with the admin role can turn off personal snippets for all team plan members or specific member groups on the Feature access page:

Turning off personal snippets will not delete them, and admins can turn them on again later to allow their team members to continue using them.