File> Options> Editor> Automation
You can control which automated actions are applied to your document when using translation resources.
- What automated actions occur when your translation memory (TM) is applied to your file
- What automated actions occur after you confirm a segment in your file
To display the settings, select from the Ribbon, and then select from the navigation tree in the Options dialog.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Perform lookup when active segment changes | When selected, Trados Studio performs a TM lookup when the cursor moves to a new segment. |
Apply best match after successful lookup | When selected, Trados Studio applies the best lookup result to the current segment. This applies only to TM matches by default. To extend this to machine translation, enable the Apply automated translation when no TM match is found option. |
Apply automated translation when no TM match is found | When selected and a machine translation match occurs, the match is automatically inserted into the Editor. By default, this is selected. |
Perform automated translation lookup on confirmed segments | When selected and you have machine translation as a provider, Trados Studio performs a machine translation lookup when the cursor moves to a confirmed segment. This is disabled by default (note that enabling this will consume characters from the Language Cloud account). This option might prove useful if you want to review a translation using machine translation. |
Turn off Track Changes when applying TM matches | When selected, Trados Studio will insert the matching translation from the TM into the target segment with no tracked changes applied. |
Copy source when no match is found | Select this if you want the source segment text to be copied to the target segment when there is no TM match for the source segment. |
Confirm segment after applying an exact match | When selected, Trados Studio confirms segments to which it has applied an exact translation memory match or a context match (CM). |
Apply better match if found in TM after merging segments | When selected, after merging segments that already contain target content, Trados Studio automatically applies a better match from the TM for the newly merged source segment. By default, this is selected. |
Enable LookAhead | When enabled, Trados Studio retrieves real-time TM matches and populates the Translation Results window, even for long or complex stretches of text. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Update translation memory | When selected, Trados Studio adds the segment translation to the TM when the translator confirms a translation or when a reviewer approves a translation. |
Enable verification of segment | When selected, Trados Studio verifies the segment when the translator confirms it. You can also verify the target file at any time by going to in the Editor view. |
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
Hide empty segments that have been merged | After the source and target content has been merged to the first segment of your selection, the remaining empty segments will remain in the document structure but will be hidden from the Editor view if this option is selected. |
Set translation status for empty segments to: | You can also set the status of the empty segment to the option you choose from the drop-down list. |