Options Dialog Box > Editor
Use the Editor settings to specify:
- What happens when SDL Trados Studio is started.
- What settings are applied when you open a document for translation in the Editor view.
- How documents are displayed in the Editor window.
- What formatting is used to show tracked changes in the Editor window.
- What formatting is used to show differences in the Translation Results window.
To display the Editor settings, select from the Ribbon and then select Editor from the navigation tree in the Options dialog box.
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Startup These settings determine what happens each time you start the application. | |
Automatically re-open previously edited documents | When this option is selected, the application automatically re-opens all documents that were open the last time you closed Studio. |
Prompt me to re-open previously edited documents | When this option is selected, you will be asked whether you want the documents that were open when you closed Studio to be re-opened. |
Do not automatically re-open previously edited documents | When this option is selected, documents are not re-opened automatically and you are not asked if you want them to be re-opened. This is the default setting. |
Opening Files
| Automatically copy source content to target cells when opening documents | When this option is selected, the content of source segments is automatically copied to target segments when you open a document for the first time. If this option is not selected, the target segments are empty when the document opens in the Editor window. |
Side-by-side Editor
These settings affect the way documents are displayed in the Editor window.
| Show segment numbers | When this option is selected, segment numbers are displayed. |
| Show whitespace characters | When this option is selected, whitespace characters appear as symbols in the document text. These characters include, for example, spaces, non-breaking spaces, tabs and line breaks. Click About Whitespace Characters to see a list of the whitespace symbols. |
| Show document structure information | When this option is selected, a code is displayed beside each segment. The code indicates where in the document the segment text occurred. For example, the segment text could be a heading or a footnote. Place the cursor over the code to see a full description of the code. Click Document Structure Column (Editor Window) to see a list of document structure codes. |
| Customize colors | A different color is assigned to each document structure type. For example, codes that indicate headings are displayed on a pale blue background. To change the default colors, select a structure type from the first box and a color from one of the tabs in the second box. The following are the three tabs that are displayed when you click the down arrow: Custom, Web and System.
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| Formatting display style | Specify how you want the document text to be displayed:
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| Group adjacent tags in formatting window | When you press Ctrl+ , (comma), tags present in the source segment are listed below the target segment. When you select a tag from the drop-down list, Studio inserts it into the target segment. When the Group adjacent tags in formatting window option is selected, adjacent placeholder tags are grouped together in a single item in the QuickPlace drop-down list or in the QuickPlace dialog box . This means that you can insert them all into the target segment with a single selection. Adjacent tags are tags that appear in a sequence and have no text between them. |
| Enable implicit row activation | When this option is selected, when you place your cursor in a segment, it automatically becomes the active row . When a row is active you can edit the target segment and a lookup is automatically performed in the translation memory, automated translation server and SDL MultiTerm (Desktop) termbase. If this option is not selected, you have to manually activate the row in the Editor view by selecting Home tab > Navigation > Translation > |
| Center active row | When a row is activated, it is automatically placed in the center of the Editor. |
Review and Sign-off
| Prompt to complete review or sign-off when closing a document | When you close a document with unreviewed segments:
When you close a document that contains translation quality assessments (TQAs), Studio displays a dialog box with an overview of all TQAs available in the document. Here you can make an overall evaluation of the document. The Complete Review dialog box allows you to override the Pass/Fail result that Studio calculated automatically based on the TQA configuration available for your project. You can also specify the type of document that you are reviewing or signing off and add a general evaluation comment. These details are also available when you generate a Translation Quality Assessment report for the current document. |
| Prompt to fill in TQA details when creating quality assessment items form the Editor | When you have TQA review mode activated and delete or add a quality assessment item straight in the Editor, moving the focus from the translation segment you have made changes will trigger the TQA details window for you to fill in. Enabling this checkbox will also show you a dialog box containing instructions on why does the TQA details pops-up. It can be deactivated after the first appearance if it loses relevance. |
| AutoSave | |
| Enable AutoSave every x minutes | Specify if and how often you want Studio to automatically save your pending changes. To be extra safe, choose to autosave more frequently, for example every five minutes. This way, you will never lose more than five minutes of work. On the other hand, if you want to make Studio faster, choose to autosave less often, for example every 20 minutes. |