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Show number of replacements performed

After performing a Find&Replace operation with "Replace All", I'd love to see a pop-up box with information on how many replacements were made.

MS Word does this, and it would be very helpful to have this info in Studio too.

Microsoft Word information pop-up showing 'All done. We made 15 replacements.' with an OK button.

I mentioned this idea 4 years ago on another SDL community forum and it was logged as Enhancement report LTE-296. Unfortunately, the enhancement hasn't been implemented, so I'm adding it as an idea here.

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  • Such a shame this hasn't been implemented yet. I first suggested it in 2016 and again here in 2020. I suppose it's too tricky to do?

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    Hi Emma,

    So it's been over 8 years since it was suggested and it only has 9 votes and that includes you and me. Maybe it's just too hard to program in...

    All the best!

    Ali Grin

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    It's received 2 more today so was worth raising again, and it's under Community Review which raises the profile.

    I suppose it's up to us to keep raising it as a topic so that others can see what's been posted. It is visible on the home page but so much else is also...

    It's similar to the fact that  has been plugging the training ideas site for years in every single post he makes, so people can suggest ideas for training and has had very few takers, even though it's free. The point I'm making is that he plugs it many times every single day yet there are very few who actually click on the link he shares to see what it's about. The page is here:  ideas for training

    Quite frustrating when we all want to help others learn but it tends to be when people become so desperate that they finally come and start a thread. This community has so much amazing, useful stuff available but it's huge and complex and not easy to navigate for folk who don't use it often if ever...

    And, to be fair, he and others also promote the ideas page every time someone asks "why can't Trados do this?"

    I'm not sure what the solution to either disappointment is...

    Enjoy the rest of your day!

    Ali Smiley

  •   Thank you for the feedback and the suggestions on how this should be implemented on Studio side. However it is not just a counter as you may ultimatly see it.

    Also, VBA(Visual Basic for Applications) only runs under MS office suite programs (Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint etc etc) and nevertheless a bit far from what Studio codebase actually is.

    As of now, this idea got into my attention, so I will pick this one up and deliver it as soon as time allows against other priorities we might have   &   thank you for the constant feedback and proposals on Studio. 

    Thank you

    Lori 

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    Hi Lori,

    Brilliant, thank you! So, it was all about raising awareness. No deliberate non-promotion. Just a busy website run be people who actually do listen to what their users want.

    As it's always been, in my experience Blush

    All the best,

    Ali Smiley

  • Loredana Stoia : I know Studio is not developed with VBA (fortunately!), but programming logic basically remains the same whatever the language (conditions and loops). :-) 

    Thank you anyway for your attention!

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