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User profiles

SDL Trados Studio stores all your settings and preferences inside a user profile. Your profile contains:

  • User settings (for example, custom keyboard shortcuts, custom look and feel, selected Spell Checker)
  • Default project settings (for example, default language pairs, translation memories, termbases, AutoSuggest dictionaries, automated translation providers, file types, translation memory settings, batch processing settings)

All specific project settings (for example, selected language pairs, translation memories, termbases, AutoSuggest dictionaries, automated translation providers, file types, translation memory settings, batch processing settings) are stored inside each project folder.

Only one profile can be active at any time; however, you can create multiple profiles and switch between them. You can export your user profile to a file for sharing with other users or for you to take with you when you use Trados Studio on a different computer. You could also create profiles for use with different customers. This means that you can have a number of profiles and switch between them.

SDLX and SDL Trados user profiles

If you are an SDLX or SDL Trados user, there are special user profiles that you can choose. These profiles enable you to use SDLX or SDL Trados keyboard shortcuts in Trados Studio and also to have similar pre-translation and translation settings to those you had previously.