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Options dialog box > Translation Memories view

Use the Translation Memories View settings to control the way translation memory content is displayed for editing in the Translation Memories view.

To display the Translation Memories View settings, select File > Options and then select Translation Memories View from the navigation tree in the Options dialog box.

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Translation Memories View

Tag display mode

Specify how you want tags to be displayed in translation unit text.

No Tag Text - Select this to display tags without their IDs. For example .

Tag ID - Select this to display tag IDs. Tag IDs are unique identifiers which are automatically assigned to every tag in a source document when it is being prepared for translation.

Show whitespace characters

When this option is selected, whitespace characters appear as symbols in the translation unit text. Whitespace 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 translation unit field values column

Number of field values to show

By default, values assigned to custom fields are displayed in the Custom Field Values column in the TM side-by-side editor window.

To turn the display of custom field values on and off, select or clear this option.

If you choose to display custom field values, use the Number of field values to show box to specify the maximum number of values to be displayed for each translation unit.

Number of translation units per page

Specify how many translation units can be displayed in a single page. Only this number of translation units will be retrieved for viewing and editing. To display the next page of translation units, click Home tab > Navigation group > Next Page or press Alt+Right Arrow.

All changes which have not yet been committed must be committed or discarded before you can go to the next page.

Font size

These settings resize the font (text) in the source and target segments in the TM side-by-side editor window.

Source font size

SDL Trados Studio displays all text in this font size in the source language segments.

Target font size

Studio displays all text in this font size in the target language segments.

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