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copy content of source segment to clipboard with one shortcut (credit for this goes to Epameinondas Soufleros)

Hi,

Who does not know the problem. The source segment contains an error you want to tell the client about or you need source string for some form you need to fill in for the client e.g. for a QA.

Now you would need to activate source segment, make it editable, copy content and switch back to target segment afterwards. Either using your mouse... quite some clicking or using existing shortcuts which still makes around 4 to 5 shortcuts to be hit, that's not efficient working. ;)

Would it be possible to add a shortcut (and a symbol in ribbon list) in Editor view with the ability to have all these steps done for the segment you are working on right now.

As the shortcut can be customized through options, I guess the key combination used does not matter. The important thing would be the result:

When using that shortcut Trados automatically copies the content of the source segment to clipboard so that you can use it on any form or email you need to send to your client.

This is not a shortcut for editing source segment but to copy its content.

regards,

Pascal

Pascal Zotto

  • I miss an edit button here.

    how I (have to) work depends on what the client sends me as reference/support material. With larger companies I often get specific Excel sheets for queries or forms on their own portals, smaller ones tend to send me online Word or Excel forms or nothing at all, so I have to stick to mails. As I quite often go for quite large rush jobs (4-8k words per day) I cannot wait until the end of the translation to export comments and queries but have to ask the client on the fly, else we would risk lose the deadlines. With on the fly queries chance is higher I get the answer before I finish the translation.

  • Hi Paul,

    interesting hint with TQA but for myself I have to admit, I mainly need it for pointing out errors in source segment or simply to ask for some help from end client about some unclear words or abbreviations in source segment. So copying to clipboard directly is quite helpful.

    Most (L)QAs I get are in other tools or Excel directly, so copying is easier. ;)

  • Hi Nora,

    In fact I already have such an AHK script with ALT+SHIFT+C:

    +^c::

    Send, {F6}

    Send, !{F2}

    Send, ^a

    Send, ^c

    Send, {F6}

    Return

    but this idea came up today, as Paul can confirm, only that the idea starter did not really post the idea as such but asked for 3 existing hotkeys that in fact already existed. In the comments it showed he was looking for something like this. Although you can use AHK I guess a hotkey in Studio will help many users that are not as keen with AHK or other helpers as some of us.

  • Hi Pascal,

    Have a look at the AutoHotkey forum, where you will find a script that does exactly what you need.

    community.sdl.com/.../14771

  • Hi Pascal, interesting usecase.  I'm wondering if there are better ways to handle this though.  For example, TQA already puts source and target into a report when you use it for QA.  You can also use Qualitivity for this as well if you don't have the ability to use TQA.  Or maybe even export to Excel which includes comments... so just make your comment in Studio and export the segments with comments afterwards and filter out what you want to send through.

    I get the point if you just want to stick it in an email though... was just wondering how you work based on your example?