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Checking TUs imported from alignment

After aligning files without review, SDL Trados Studio displays the translation units (TUs) resulting from the alignment in the Translation Memory (TM) editor. Here you can make small edits to the TU text.

Navigating in the TM Side-by-Side Editor window

By default the TM Editor displays 50 translation units per page. You can change the number of translation units displayed to show up to 200 translation units per page.

To switch between pages, use the controls on the Navigation group of the Home tab. You can also specify filters to display only those translation units that match certain criteria. For more information, see working with filters in the Translation Memory view.

Editing a translation unit

You edit TUs by dragging-and-dropping parts of a TU into a different one.

Each TU shows the default system fields and the Quality, Source and Target File custom fields that Studio assigns automatically to the alignment pairs. The quality value is calculated based on an internal alignment algorithm which considers linguistic and contextual dependencies between the source and target segments in the document.

The Source and Target File fields show the location of the documents from where the TU originated. To edit custom fields values, click on the field value and make the required changes.

Committing translation memories changes

To save changes to the translation memory in the Translation Memories view:

Click Commit Changes on the Save group of the Home tab. This saves all the updates to the translation units and deletes all the translation units that you marked for deletion.

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