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Home tab - Welcome view

The Home tab contains the most frequently used commands for working with translation memories in SDL Trados Studio.

The following table describes all the default groups and commands that are displayed on the Home tab in the Welcome view:
CommandDescriptionGroup

Project Settings

Click this to display the Project Settings dialog box for the active project.

Configuration

Upgrade Translation Memories

Click this to upgrade your SDL Trados 2007 and SDLX translation memories, so that they can be used in Studio. The Upgrade Translation Memories wizard is displayed.

Translation Memory

Align Documents

Align Single File PairClick this to pair one source document to its corresponding target document and generate one single alignment result (*.sdlalign) file.
Align Multiple Files

Click this to align several pairs of files at the same time. This generates an alignment result (*.sdlalign) file from each pair of source and target document.

Studio sends the translation units that result from all the generated alignment result files to the same translation memory.

Open Alignment

Click this to open an alignment result file (*.sdlalign file) for review in the Alignment view. Studio generates *.sdlalign files when you align single or multiple files and you choose to save the alignment result file for later review.

Create AutoSuggest Dictionary

Select this to create an AutoSuggest dictionary.

Open Retrofit File

Click this to open a Retrofit file (*.sdlretrofit file) for review in the Alignment view. Studio generates *.sdlretrofit files when you update project files with changes in exported target files and you choose to review the automatic alignment that is performed during the process.

Terminology Management

Terminology Management

Click this to open SDL MultiTerm (Desktop).

MultiTerm is the main client component of MultiTerm (Desktop)Desktop. It enables you to manage termbases and termbase content.

For more information, see the SDL MultiTerm Help.

Software Localization

Click this to open SDL Passolo where you can create new or work with existing localization projects. Passolo is a localization tool for text resource translation and software localization. Text resources are the text components of a software that are displayed on screen.

The Essential version of Passolo, included as a separate download when you purchase Studio, includes all the functions you need to localize software. However, it has some restrictions compared to the Passolo Professional and Passolo Team editions.

For more information, see the SDL Passolo Essential documentation.

Show Shortcuts

Show Shortcuts

Click this to display a printable list of keyboard shortcuts for Studio.

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