MultiTerm feature suggestion: option to drag and drop entered translations for a source term to manually change their order

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Hi All, 
 For almost two years now, I have been working on creating my own Microsoft termbase for English<>Bulgarian. 
 Time and again, it has happened that after adding 4-5 translations for a single source term, I would wish to be able to change their order manually but would not be able to do so unless I am willing to delete and re-enter terms from scratch. 
 It would be great to be able to just drag and drop terms within a list of several already entered terms to change their list order manually. This will optimize the order of listed terms when term recognition offers terms in Trados editor. 
 Best regards, 
 Pavel Tsvetkov

Paul · Accepted Answer

Pavel Tsvetkov 
 You need to put the display into anything other than Default and then just press F2. This video explains:

Paul · Answer

Pavel Tsvetkov 
 If you have suggestions like this the best place to put them is in the ideas site: 
 http://ideas.sdl.com

Michael Bailey · Answer

Does using Shift and Up or Down not work for you in MultiTerm for reordering terms?

Michael Schroeder · Answer

Can confirm this works. In MultiTerm Desktop, go to edit mode. Select a term, hold down Shift and use the up and down arrow keys to reorder terms. Nice trick, didn't know about this one :)

Former Member · Answer

This is actually a very clever way to reorganize synonyms. It really works. However, in MultiTerm 2019, it does not work in Default Mode. Apparently it only works in "Languages only" display mode (perhaps in other display modes but I did not test it). Put the entry in Edit Mode and then, this is important, you have to first click on any of the little pencil icons. Thanks for the tip, Michael! 
 
 Oops! I just noticed that the video, above, by Paul Filkin explains the same. Sorry, Paul for being repetitive.

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MultiTerm feature suggestion: option to drag and drop entered translations for a source term to manually change their order

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