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I'm translating a document and I have just realised that the working TM, that is the TM of the document itself does not respect the order of the segments in my target docuement (from 1 goes to 4 and from there to 8... etc:). I am very worried...What have I done wrong? I confirm the segments after translation but very often I have to go back to them for corrections and upgrading. This means for instance that segment 2 can be confirmed after segment 10...and so on. Is that the reason? How can I see the TM in the right order? Help please!

Alison Field · Accepted Answer

Hi Maria, 
 
Me again! 
 
Do you mean that you'd like to see the translation units in the TM laid out in the same order as the segments in the document? Studio calls the working TM the 'Project TM'. 
 
Translation units are added to a TM in the order in which the relevant segments are confirmed in the document. When a translation unit is added to the TM, it is allocated a number consecutive to the last unit that was created, and the translation units stay in the order in which they were first created, regardless of whether they are corrected or used again for future translations. 
 
The TM doesn't need to be in the same order as the document. If you have a 'main' TM that you confirm all your translated documents to as you work, it will contain input from many documents and grow in size each time you use it. 
 
If you're a new user, you might like to watch a webinar on memory: 
 
 www.sdl.com/.../ 
 
I hope I've understood your question correctly, 
All the best, 
Ali

Alison Field · Answer

Hi Maria, 
 
Your project memory will work absolutely fine with those settings. 
Project memory = working memory specific to the project you're working on. 
Most if not all translators use a main memory as well as a project memory to record everything they translate for later use. I use one per client as often their sentences are repeated. 
 
Here's what those settings mean: 
Enabled: means that the memory is going to be used on the job you're working on 
Lookup: means that Studio will search what is already in the memory so you can use it again in the job you're working on 
Penalty: no need to use this 
Concordance: means you can manually search the memory using the Concordance window in Editor 
Update: Means that every segment you confirm is updated to the memory, either as a new TU (translation unit) or as a correction/change to an existing identical TU. 
 
If you want to know more, go the the Memory window in Project settings and click 'Help', it will take you to the Help relevant part of the Studio & MultiTerm help database. 
 
Hope this helps! I'm out the rest of today so if you have further questions I won't see them till later :) 
All the best, 
Ali

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