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64-bit version of Studio

Jay Young
- Under Community Review on 22 May 2017
- 132 Comments
Please create a 64-bit version of Studio. At present only a 32-bit version is available, and therefore it can theoretically only access 2-3GB of system memory, meaning that upgrading your machine with more memory then this does not have any beneficial...
- 17 May 2017 8:31 AM
Source file System field in SDLTMs

Miriam Santos Freire
- Under Community Review on 5 Sep 2017
- 10 Comments
Hi, Creating a new idea just for the Source file System field in Studio. Please do consider having a Source file system field in SDLTMs which capture at least the file where that segment was first created. Filepath and name would be ideal but filename...
- 5 Sep 2017 10:29 AM
TM Management Tool

Maite Sádaba Champetier de Ribes
- Idea Delivered Partially on 14 Feb 2025
- 25 Comments
With client's TMs growing bigger every year, it is inevitable to have obsolete segments, old terminology, incosistencies, etc., which pollute TMs over time. In order to maintain the quality of TMs it is crucial that SDL develops a tool to perform TM managment...
- 1 Aug 2017 12:14 PM
Improve visibility of TM Match Status when working with tracked changes

Zoe Hodgson
- Under Community Review on 21 Mar 2025
- 0 Comments
When applying a Translation Memory to a file with tracked changes, the Translation Details column shows only a "TC" match instead of the actual %. This makes it difficult to quickly see the level of effort needed, as translators must click in each segment...
- 21 Mar 2025 10:26 AM
Multiple termbases for term verification

Yuji Yamamoto
- Under Community Review on 24 May 2017
- 2 Comments
It would be nice if we could use multiple termbases for term verification.
- 24 May 2017 7:17 AM
Show character count for selected text (also across segments)

Ladislav Hlavatý
- Under Community Review on 25 Sep 2017
- 8 Comments
Until now Studio is showing character count only for active target segment (after last update without spaces, but this is different topic). It would be nice to also display character count for selected text only (+ enable this even across segments).
- 7 Aug 2017 12:58 PM
Get rid of the information message "This project has already been opened"

Thomas Vackier
- Under Community Review on 26 Sep 2017
- 1 Comment
Just make the project active instead of showing this message.
- 26 Sep 2017 2:26 PM
Enable shortcuts for all formatting options

Tammy Koopmans-Lee
- Idea Delivered Partially on 8 Apr 2020
- 3 Comments
Currently, Studio support for formatting shortcuts are somewhat limited. It would be great if we could enable creation of custom shortcuts for all formatting types, especially those under the Quick insert tags, such as highlighting. Example. Currently...
- 23 Jul 2019 1:41 PM
Verification > Terminology Verifier > Verification Settings > Multiple Termbases

Samuel Baldus
- Under Community Review on 12 Jul 2017
- 8 Comments
Please could you make it possible to verify a file, using multiple termbases. A project may have multiple termbases attached to it. Currently, when using the Terminology Verifier, only the first termbase in the list will be used. Ideally, you should...
- 12 Jul 2017 8:49 AM
Target language selector in the new project wizard, auto-substitution settings and some other remarks

David Lopez Del Precinto
- Under Community Review on 20 Feb 2019
- 2 Comments
Dear community, I am writing this message, since we are about to migrate to SDL Trados Studio 2019 and noticed some issues that we would like to share with you. On the one hand, the new language selector for the target languages in the project wizard...
- 20 Feb 2019 12:09 PM