Home tab - Editor View
The Home tab contains the most frequently used commands for editing, formatting and translating project files in SDL Trados Studio.
| Command | Description | Group |
|---|---|---|
Project Settings | Click this to display the Project Settings dialog box for the active project . | Configuration |
Cut | Click this to cut selected text and put it on the clipboard. Shortcut command: Ctrl+X | Clipboard |
Copy | Click this to copy selected text to the clipboard. Shortcut command: Ctrl+C | |
Paste | Click this to paste the contents of the clipboard into the segment at the current cursor point. Shortcut command: Ctrl+V | |
Batch Tasks | Click this to start batch processing tasks. The Batch Tasks drop-down list is displayed. When you click a command on this list, documents that are open in Studio are closed, and the Batch Processing wizard starts. Click Batch Task Descriptions to see descriptions of the available batch tasks. Click Batch Task Sequence Descriptions to see descriptions of the system-provided batch task sequences. | File Action |
Complete Review | Click this to approve all the unreviewed translations in the document and set their status to Translation Approved. Any translations that do not have a status of Translation Approved or Translation Rejected are classified as unreviewed. This option is only available if the document is open for review. TQA Review When you complete the review of a document that contains translation quality assessments (TQAs), Studio displays a dialog box with an overview of all TQAs. Here you can also make an overall evaluation of the document. | |
Complete Sign-off | Click this to approve all translations in the document except those with Translation Rejected or Sign Off Rejected status. The approved translations are set to Signed Off status. This option is only available if the document is open for sign-off. TQA Sign Off When you complete the sign off of a document that contains translation quality assessments (TQAs), Studio displays a dialog box with an overview of all TQAs. Here you can also make an overall evaluation of the document. | |
Bold | Select a piece of text and click this to apply bold formatting to it. Shortcut command: Ctrl+B | Formatting |
Italic | Select a piece of text and click this to apply italic formatting to it. Shortcut command: Ctrl+I | |
Underline | Select a piece of text and click this to apply underline to it. Shortcut command: Ctrl+U | |
Superscript | Superscript formatting makes text appear smaller than the normal line text and is set slightly above the text. Shortcut command: Ctrl+Shift+Plus Sign on the alphabetic keyboard. | |
Subscript | Subscript formatting makes text appear smaller than the normal line text and is set slightly below the text. Shortcut command: Ctrl+Plus Sign on the main keyboard. | |
Small Caps | SMALL CAPS makes lower-case letters look like small versions of CAPITALS. Shortcut command: Ctrl+Shift+K | |
Left-To-Right | This button is useful for inserting Western words into bidirectional text. | |
Right-To-Left | This button is useful for inserting Arabic and Hebrew words into bidirectional text. | |
Show Whitespace | You can toggle on and off the display of whitespace characters in the Editor window. | |
Em dash | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Alt+Hyphen on the alphabetic keypad. | QuickInsert |
En Dash | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Hyphen on the alphabetic keypad. | |
Non-breaking hyphen | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Shift+Hyphen on the alphabetic keypad. | |
Optional hyphen | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Hyphen on the alphabetic keyboard. | |
Soft break | A soft break is a break at the end of a line or a page. The location of a soft break adjusts automatically with a change in the margins, line length or the number of lines. Shortcut command: Ctrl+Enter | |
Euro | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Shift+E | |
Copyright | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Alt+C | |
Registered | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Alt+R | |
TradeMark | Shortcut command: Ctrl+Alt+T | |
German quotes | Inserts German-type quotes in the target segment at the cursor position. | |
English double quotes | Inserts English-type straight double quotes in the target segment at the cursor position. | |
French quotes | Inserts French-type quotes (guillemets) in the target segment at the cursor position. | |
Custom | This is a custom QuickInsert button. You can assign commands to these buttons for each file type. For more information see About Customizing the QuickInsert Group. You can create any number of custom buttons, but the QuickInsert group only displays the first seven. | |
Insert Tag Launcher | Click this to launch the Insert Tag dialog box where you can access the remaining custom buttons and remove inserted formatting. From here you can remove selected formatting by clicking the corresponding button with the red line. For example, to remove bold formatting click: |