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The Editor view navigation pane

In the Editor view, the navigation pane shows all of the files that are currently open in the Editor window. Drag-and-drop files here to quickly open them for translation.

Each file appears as a branch in the navigation tree. Select a file from the tree to make it the active document.

By default the navigation pane is expanded. To minimize the navigation pane, select the Minimize the Navigation Pane button at the top of the navigation pane. To expand the navigation pane, select the Expand the navigation pane button.

Navigating Individual Documents

You can expand a file in the navigation tree to reveal its structure. For example, a file may contain headers, footers and tables, and these appear as file components in the navigation tree.

Once you have expanded a file, you can select the part of the file you want to work with and Editor window automatically scrolls the file until the selected file part is displayed in the Editor window.

A plus sign indicates that a document can be expanded. Select the plus sign to see the file structure.

When you click a plus sign, it changes to a minus sign. Select the minus sign to hide the file structure again.

Merged Files

Several files can be merged into one single, bigger file. You can merge files physically when creating a new project, or merge them virtually, at any time in the Files view.

Files merged physically are saved as one file after translation whereas files merged virtually are split back and exported from Trados Studio as individual files.

You can identify files merged physically by the *.sdlxliff icon next to the file name. Files merged virtually show the icon of the first type of merged file and are their name always begin with Multiple Files. When you expand a merged file, each of the merged files included is displayed as a separate file part and can be expanded in the usual way.