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Searching for duplicate translation units

When you want to delete translation units (TUs) from the translation memory (TM) or are involved in TM maintenance work, you can search for duplicate TUs in the , in the Translation Memories view. Duplicates are TUs that contain the same source language segment text. Tags are not considered when searching for duplicates in the source language. The criteria for a duplicate also do not include having the same target language segment text or context.

Procedure

  1. In the Translation Memories view, make the TM for which you want to search for TUs the active TM.
  2. Select Search in potential duplicates only from the Search Type drop-down list in the Search Details window.
  3. Click Perform Search. The duplicates are displayed in the TM side-by-side editor window as one page per set of duplicates. To view the next or previous page of duplicates, use the Next Page and the Previous page buttons on the Home tab > Navigation group.
    You can now delete or edit the duplicate translation units.