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  • Advanced Display Filter: make tabs Multiline

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    I have my ADF docked to the side so there is plenty of vertical space but not some much horizontal. In that case it would be nice to see all tabs of the tabcontol instead of just 1 line with scroll buttons. NB: settting the Multiline property of...
  • Better French Punctuation rule

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    When in QA Checker the boxes "Check for unintentional spaces before" and "French compliant checks (spaces are intentional)" are active, the QA Checker in a French text finds "errors" when there are spaces before "," (commas) and "." (dots), which is wrong...
  • Permanently store filters within TMs

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    We make extensive use of fields to organize data in our TMs. In order to export translation units from a TM, we often need to filter for conditions to be met. This works well for simple tasks but when we need extensive filters, especially when selecting...
  • Add Search & Regex Filter to Keyboard Shortcuts Panel

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    Hi Trados Studio Team, Currently, the Keyboard Shortcuts panel lists hundreds of actions in a single scrollable table with no way to filter or search. Finding a specific command to customize requires manually scanning through a very long list — which...
  • Advanced Display Filter: option (checkbox) filter but show all content for the filtered segments

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    • 1 Comment
    Hi, would it be possible to add an option via checkbox to Advanced Display Filter in order to get all content (tags outside the segments) shown only for the filtered segments? Another usefull filter would be to filter only those segments which have...
  • Please make Trados Studio (desktop application) evolve into an “error-free“ software.

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    Currently, Trados Studio 2024 (desktop application) still generates various error messages during use. Translators do not have the time to report these errors each time they occur. Interestingly, almost every “error” can already be found as previously...
  • Specific XFDF file type filter for comments in pdf

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    • 1 Comment
    Just a minor suggestion (not extremely required but still useful). Sometimes clients ask me to translate comments, which are added in text boxes over the text in pdf files (not the text itself). When you deal with pdf files generated from complicated...
  • Translation speed in words per hour in the progress bar (like in MateCat)

    • Idea Delivered Partially
    • 5 Comments
    Hello. This is a very simple feature I've seen in another CAT tool and I found it to be very motivating and generally giving you a better overview of the workload. It also has an estimate of the time needed to complete the task: The speed is of course...
  • Redesign external review

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    • 4 Comments
    Hi! External review is often required by some clients. Sadly, the bilingual Word approach is far from being stable and reliable. Three options: 1. Design a new feature from scratch (Excel please !) 2. Add a warning message, something like "Don...
  • Translation of text snippets within SDL Trados Studio

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    More and more translation requests are handed in by email, chat, orally... and concern small bits of text like sentences, social media posts, corrections of existing sentences, email content, etc. I would like to be able to translate these using my TMs...