Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Jerzy Czopik — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 14:05:39 GMT

Modifying keyboard shortcuts -> File -> Options -> Keyboard shortcuts
You can modify nearly ANY shortcut there.
But this seems not to be the problem here.
Please take ANY keyboard and connect it via USB (or Bluetooth adapter) to your laptop and check with this.

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Paolo Sebastiani — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:56:00 GMT

Thanks for your reply.
I am using the keyboard of my laptop which is integrated with the main frame, do you think it is possible to cange it anyway?
Is there any chance to modify the ALT+ ANY KEY set with SDL Trados?
Thanks
Paolo

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Jerzy Czopik — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:46:42 GMT

The only explanation for these small codes appearing on the ribbon is pressing the ALT key - either by purpose or incidentally.
If you are not using the ALT key and are not aware of pressing it, please check your keyboard. The German layout is not a problem at all, I'm using a German keyboard with German or Polish layout (PL 214) all the time since Studio exists.
I have had similar problem to yours, when I was using shortcuts with ALT, like ALT+Insert, but these have been resolved with SR1 for Studio 2017. So I really suppose your keyboard is damaged (mechanically or electronically). Check please using a different one.

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Paolo Sebastiani — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:29:48 GMT

Hi Jerzy,
No I am not using any ALT + Key. After translating the sentence I am just hitting either CTRL+ENTER or CTRL+ALT+ENTER in order to confirm the segmente and move to the next one. When you say that I should use a different Keyboard layout what exactly do you mean? I am translating vs German so my Keyboard is generally set to the German language. Is this a problem?

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Paolo Sebastiani — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:25:17 GMT

RE: Big problem with little square numbers and letters appearing on the menus on the upper ribbon

Jerzy Czopik — Sun, 13 Aug 2017 13:21:30 GMT

Are you using the ALT key to enter such letters? ALT toggles the ribbon in Studio... The solution will be using a different keyboard layout.