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Extended keyboard support in the Editor view

We have added new keyboard shortcut to help you increase your productivity when working in the Editor view.

Go to File > Options > Keyboard shortcuts and set your preferred shortcuts for the following new available actions:

New available shortcutDescriptionFurther available actions
Translation ResultsMoves the focus from the Editor view to the Translation Results window.

From here, you can select results from lookups in your active translation memory or draft translations from automated translation servers.

Use the ↑ Up and ↓ Down arrows to navigate line-by-line through the translation memory matches.

To insert the selected match in the active segment, press your specified shortcut for Apply Translation Result. The default shortcut for this is CTRL+T.

Fragment MatchesMoves the focus from the Editor view to the Fragment Matches window.

From here, you can select fragment match results from lookups from your active translation memory or automated translation server.

Use the ↑ Up and Down ↓ arrows to navigate between fragment match results.

Press your specified shortcut for Apply Fragment Match Result or the default CTRL+ALT+M to insert the selected fragment match result into your active segment.

Term Recognition Moves the focus from the Editor view to the Term Recognition window.

From here, you can select term matches that Trados Studio identified automatically in your active termbase.

Use the ↑ Up and Down ↓ arrows to navigate between termbase results.

Press Insert to insert the selected termbase entry into your active segment.

Press Enter to open the Termbase Viewer window and see more details about the termbase entry.

Termbase Search Moves the focus from the Editor view to the Termbase Search window.

From here, you can manually search for entries in your active from your active termbase.

Press Tab to move from the search box to the list of search results.

Use the ↑ Up and Down ↓ arrows to navigate between results.

Press Insert to insert the selected termbase entry into your active segment.

Press Enter to open the Termbase Viewer window and see more details about the termbase entry.

Concordance SearchMoves the focus from the Editor view to the Concordance Search window.

From here, you can run concordance searches in the active translation memory. Concordance searching tries to match parts of the selected text or segment even if the words appear in a different context or order in the TM segment.

Press Tab to move from the search box to the list of search results.

Use the ↑ Up and ↓ Down arrows to navigate through the results line-by-line.

Select the relevant text from the segment result and press CTRL+ALT+F3 to insert the selected text into the active segment.

Press your specified shortcut for Clear Concordance Search to clear the search results.

Press F3 to generate a new search after selecting segment text.

TQAsMoves the focus from the Editor view to the TQAs window.
From here, you can:
  • View translation quality assessments (TQAs) available in the files open in the Editor view.
  • Add, edit and delete TQAs available in the files that are open in the Editor view.
Use the ↑ Up and Down ↓ arrows to navigate between results. Select a result and press:
  • Ctrl+Shift+E to edit TQA result.
  • F9 to move to next TQA item.
  • Shift+F9 to move to the previous TQA item.
  • Ctrl+Shift+Q to delete the selected TQA item
To add new TQA items, select some segment text from the Editor window and press Ctrl+Shift+T.

Return focus to the last active segment

To move the focus back to the Editor view, and place the cursor in the last active segment, click CTRL+0. You can change this default key shortcut combination from File >Options > Keyboard shortcuts > Focus Editor window