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Navigating the Online Editor user interface

The Online Editor user interface consists of multiple elements designed to help you focus on your work and make each interaction meaningful.

These elements include tabs, groups, the ribbon, the workspace, and the status bar, as shown in the following image: A screen shot that shows the Online Editor interface, along with its various elements. The number of words displayed in the status bar is the total number of words in the source text. On the other hand, the number of characters refers to the total number of characters in the segment that you are currently editing; this can be the source segment or the target segment. If you select only a part of the source or the target segment, the number of characters in the selected text is displayed. A screen shot of the number of characters in a selected piece of text.
The Online Editor interface is context-sensitive. Therefore, when you resize the page, its elements are adjusted automatically to the new height and width. If the buttons on the ribbon do not fit on the entire width of the page, only part of them are displayed and you can access the rest by selecting An icon that looks like an ellipsis..A screen shot that shows where the ellipsis button is situated on the SDL Online Editor interface.