Overview
Wordlight is a plugin for SDL Trados Studio 2019 that provides features for highlighting selected text in the editor with a chosen color. The highlight formatting is persisted in compatible formats that support this feature, such as Word and PDF when generating the target native file.
Setup
Wordlight Plugin
- Download the Wordlight plugin to your local drive
- Double click on the plugin to launch the SDL Plugin Installer and complete the installation, selecting the supported versions of SDL Trados Studio.
Keyboard Shortcuts
The Wordlight plugin has as number of keyboard shortcut actions that you can adapt to fit your needs at any time.
Procedure
Usage
Highlight text
- Open a document in the editor.
- Select text in the target segment.
- Select the Highlight Word button from the Wordlight group in the Home ribbon.
Change highlight color
- Select the bottom section of the Highlight Word button from the Wordlight group in the Home ribbon; near the dropdown arrow.
Note: The color selection window is displayed. - Select the highlight color by moving mouse over the colored block and then left mouse click.
Clear highlight formatting
There are few options available to clear the highlight formatting that is added by Wordlight. Choose from the following actions depending on the required usage:
- Clear highlight formatting from filtered segments
- Clear highlight formatting from active segment
- Clear highlight formatting from selected text