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Inserting symbols and special characters

You can quickly insert special characters and symbols in the SDL Trados Studio Editor window.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Projects view and select the project you want to work on.
  2. Go to the Files view and double-click the file you want to work on.
  3. Go to the Advanced tab and select Insert Symbol.
  4. In the dialog, browse through all the available characters (all Unicode characters) and choose the relevant ones from the drop-down list.
  5. Select Insert.

Results

Your special character is inserted. Once you inserted a character, a new shortcut button appears on the ribbon, which you can use to quickly insert that character without having to browse for it again. There are a maximum of 9 shortcut buttons. The shortcut buttons are automatically kept up-to-date to reflect the 9 most recently used characters.

Be more productive, by using keyboard shortcuts. If you press ALT + A, you will see keyboard hints appearing as in the picture below. So ALT + A + 1 inserts the first character and so on. You can also use ALT + SHIFT + <number> to insert one of the recent characters.