There is a multitude of settings that you can customize to improve SDL Trados Studio behavior or adapt it to your needs.
Preferences and defaults Preferences are settings that enable you to configure how you want SDL Trados Studio to look and function.
File types If you are just getting started and you are translating files that SDL Trados Studio supports, you can rely on the defaults. If you want to translate files of an unsupported file type, to improve translation leverage or to optimize translation for the files you have, customize the file type settings.
SDL Trados Studio health maintenance There are a few things that you can do to keep SDL Trados Studio running at its full potential. You can keep the application up-to-date, you can do basic debugging and you can join the SDL Customer Experience Improvement Program.
Keyboard shortcuts There are three sets of keyboard shortcuts: Default, SDLX and SDL Trados.