Locking and unlocking segments or parts of segments

By locking segments or parts of segments, you can protect them from being modified. You can unlock protected segments or parts of segments if you need to modify them.

About this task

This feature is not available for Customer Reviewers who access Trados Online Editor from Trados Customer Portal.

When a segment or a selection is locked the following actions (and their associated shortcuts are disabled):

No.Disabled action...if segments are locked...if selections are locked
1.Cutdisableddisabled
2.Pastedisableddisabled
3.Clear Formattingdisableddisabled
4.Clear All Formattingdisableddisabled
5.Apply Formattingdisableddisabled
6.Change Casedisableddisabled
7.Insert Charactersdisableddisabled
8.Confirm Translationdisabledenabled
9.Copy Source to Targetdisabledenabled
10.Copy All Source to Targetdisabledenabled
11.Clear Target Segmentsdisabledenabled
12.Clear Draft Segmentsdisabledenabled
13.Segment actions (edit, split, merge, change status)disabledenabled
14.Track Changesdisableddisabled
15.Accept revisiondisableddisabled
16.Reject revisiondisableddisabled
17.Add commentdisableddisabled
18.Delete commentdisableddisabled

Procedure

  1. Abra el archivo adecuado en Trados Online Editor.
  2. Do one of the following:
    • If you want to lock or to unlock a segment, click that segment.
    • If you want to lock or to unlock a part of a segment, select it.
  3. On the Home tab, in the Segments group, do one of the following:
    • To lock a segment, select Segment Locking > Lock Segment or press Ctrl+L.
    • To unlock a locked segment, select Segment Locking > Unlock Segment or press Ctrl+L.
    • To lock a part of a segment, select Segment Locking > Lock Selection
    • To unlock a locked part of a segment, select Segment Locking > Unlock Selection
    Locked segments appear dimmed and have a lock symbol next to their status, on the right side of the screen. Similarly, locked parts of segments are delimited by two lock symbols—one at the beginning and one at the end of the selection.