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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.

Emma Goldsmith
  • in reply to Emma Goldsmith

     

    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

  • in reply to Philippe Riondel

    Fun fact: the counter is actually implemented. It is just not shown

  • in reply to Alison Field

    Why has the idea received only nine votes? I reckon it's because the ideas page gets little visibility and promotion.  Smirk
     

  • in reply to Philippe Riondel

     

    Hi Philippe, I've never programmed, I'm happy to say.

    Amitiés,

    Ali Smiley

  • in reply to Alison Field

    Alison, any person who has already programmed, even in VBA, knows that implementing a counter is easy. It is just adding a numeric variable and an instruction to increment it at each execution of the loop that browse the texte and performs the replacements, then adding a message box with the result. It would not take more than a couple of hours, including testing.