Available Studio 2019 Trados Keyboard Shortcuts and AutoHotKey

Question

Hi all, 
 Studio has so many keyboard shortcuts that one can hardly remember them. Going through the mammoth list of keyboard shortcuts is another task! Most probably if you have an AutoHotKey (say Ctrl-C), it will not work as Studio uses it for Copy. Questions: 
 How to find out available shortcut keys (those not used by Studio)? For example, Ctrl-J is available! (I had to try out some 15 key combos to get this one!) 
 Are there some tips for programming the AutoHotKey. Apparently, you can use CapsLock+a, b, c....etc. 
 Are there any other such available shortcut keys that can be used as an AutoHotKey? (Obviously the F1..F12 keys are out.) 
 Many thanks in advance. 
 Guru

Nora Díaz · Accepted Answer

Hi Guru, 
 
A few tips: 
 
1. You can sort the Studio shortcut list by shortcut, and that should make it easier to figure out if a particular key combination is already in use. 
 
2. Even if there's already a Studio shortcut that uses a certain key combination, it's very likely that creating an AutoHotkey script with the same combination will override the Studio shortcut, so if your AHK script is working but something in Studio stops working, there's likely to be a shortcut conflict. Many of my AHK scripts use Alt as a modifier key, since I don't really use Alt to access the ribbon shortcuts, so I use Alt+L to launch searches in Linguee, for example, instead of activating the Tell Me feature in Studio 2019. Assigning your own shortcuts to the F keys will remap them as well, so, for example, I use F2 to filter segments based on selected text instead of its assigned function in Studio (script below; to use it, select some text in the source segment and press F2). 
 
;Filter on selected text 
F2:: 
Send ^c 
Sleep 200 
Send ^{F6} 
Sleep 200 
Send ^v 
Sleep 200 
Send {Enter} 
Sleep 100 
Send {Control Down}{Home}{Control Up}{Down} 
Return 
 
3. In addition to using a modifier key (Windows Key, Ctrl, Alt or Shift) plus a letter, you can also use letter combinations to launch your scripts. For example, I use "ttt" to launch a script that takes me to the active project's memories (below, so you can test it if you'd like). This opens a world of possibilities, because you're not limited to only using hotkeys that consist of modifiers plus other keys. 
 
::ttt:: ;go to Project Memories 
Send {Esc} 
Send !p 
Sleep 100 
Send Pro 
Send 100 
Send Lan 
Sleep 100 
Send {Down 2} 
Sleep 100 
Send {Tab 2} 
Return 
 
Hope that helps a bit. I'm sure some of our other colleagues who are much more knowledgeable about AHK can share some valuable tips as well!

Nora Díaz · Answer

Hi Ollie, 
 It's quite simple, actually, and I think you may be able to tweak it easily to make it work for you (I suspect we use different shortcuts to get to Project Settings). I've commented the script out below so you see what each line does. 
 ::ttt:: ;go to Project Memories 
 Send {Esc} ;this is just pressing the Esc key once to avoid triggering anything else 
 Send !p ;my shortcut to go to Project Settings, change if you use a different shortcut 
 Sleep 100 ;short wait 
 Send Pro ;type (send) the letters "Pro" so the top of the options tree (Project) will be selected 
 Send 100 ;short wait 
 Send Lan ;type (send) the letters "Lan", which are the beginning of "Language Pairs", so that "Language Pairs" will be selected 
 Sleep 100 ;short wait 
 Send {Down 2} ;press the down arrow twice 
 Sleep 100 ;short wait 
 Send {Tab 2} ;press the tab key twice 
 Return 
 And this is what the script does: 
 
 You can try following the steps above manually to see which one isn't working for you, then adjust that in the script and then try to run the script again. I do that all the time when writing new scripts that involve following a series of steps.

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