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  • Project to retain "Set as Active" parameter

    David Valdivia Vera
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    I don't know whether it's expected Studio behavior or not... but after closing the files for a project in the Editor view, the active project changes to the previous one, not the current. Can that be fixed so that active project only changes when "Set...

  • Quotation marks | Missing choice option for the quotation marks to be used

    Philippe Lorre
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    The function “Replace ‘straight quotes’ with smart quotes” has been a major improvement in the last few years. This functionality could and should however be improved because some languages use two different types of quotation marks (German, Italian...

  • Integrate "Record Source" with Studio

    Wojciech Matyszkiewicz
    • Under Community Review
    • 1 Comment
    "Record Source" is a truly great app that helps me identify which document a given segment comes from. However it doesn't record the precious info automatically on all the TMs I use for the project and set to update. I first need to select the TM I...

  • Create project termbases (similar to project TMs)

    Dries Moerloose
    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    In case you are handling translation projects with very large termbases, it can be useful to extract a project termbase, so that only the terms that appear in the content for translation are available for the translator. With this, there is no hassle...

  • Terminology extraction during project preparation stage.

    Former Member
    Former Member
    • Under Community Review
    • 3 Comments
    Project preparation phase is usually taking a while (for obvious reasons), so it would make sense to offer an option to automatically extract terminology from the source document and instantly create a termbase with it, adding it to project settings....

  • Automatic conversion of units in addition to localisation

    Paul
    • Under Community Review
    • 4 Comments
    Trados 2007 used to have the ability to convert units as well as localize them. So go from inches to centimetres for example, or GBP to Euros. This feature was actually removed because of a lot of adverse feedback from users where rounding errors and...

  • Terminology Verifier: Check two termbases simultaneously

    Julia Müller
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hi, it would be great if you could use the terminology verifier for 2+ termbases at the same time in SDL Trados Studio and not just for the default termbase. Thank you

  • Intelligent capitalization in Search and Replace

    Ignacio Niveiro
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    I, for one, am a frequent user of Search and Replace. An interesting feature that Word possesses and Trados does not, is the possibility of intelligent capitalization in Search and Replace. Let me explain and give you an example if you get the idea. ...

  • Greater latitude, please, in determining the date format

    Adam Warren
    • Under Community Review
    • 2 Comments
    Hullo Paul and the SDL ideas team, Please could the individual user have more control in selecting/programming the date format? One of my current end-clients, while wishing for US spelling, wishes nevertheless to have the European English format....

  • Removing individual languages from a project

    Susanne Wölkerling
    • Under Community Review
    • 0 Comments
    Hi all, I'm not sure if this has been requested before, but we have always wondered why it is not possible to remove individual languages from a project once it has been created. We often handle projects with 20-30 languages and create a project for...