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Customizing the QuickInsert Group to insert text or special characters

The QuickInsert group enables you to quickly insert text or special characters into the target translations. You can customize the buttons on the QuickInsert group. For example, you could insert a company name or you could use it to insert the special characters, such as guillemets (« ») which are used as quotation marks in French.

Procedure

  1. Display the QuickInsert settings and specify basic information.
    1. Access the appropriate dialog box. See topic, Finding the Right File Type Settings for more information.
    2. Select File Types from the navigation tree.
    3. Select the file type whose QuickInsert group you want to customize and then when the branch expands select QuickInsert.
    4. Click Add or Edit to display the Add/Edit QuickInsert dialog box.
    5. In the Add/Edit QuickInsert dialog box, specify a name and description. The description will be displayed as a tooltip when the user hovers the mouse over the button.
  2. Specify your text settings.
    1. Select one of the following from the Type box:
      Standalone text

      Select this if you want to insert special characters or a commonly used word, such as a company name.

      Text pair

      Select this if you want to insert text or special characters that will surround existing text in the target, such as guillemets (« »).

    2. Enter the text that you want to be inserted when you click the QuickInsert button during translation:
      • If you selected Standalone text, enter this text in the Start Text box.
      • If you selected Text pair, enter this text in the Start Text and End Text boxes.
    3. To display this as a button on the QuickInsert group, select Display in QuickInsert group.
    4. Click OK until all dialog boxes are closed.

Results

The new QuickInsert item will now be added to the QuickInsert group when you translate files that use these settings.

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