Select all bug in search box, Trados 2021

Question

Hello:

Although this might seem minor or not important, it caught my attention because I'm used to shortcuts instead of manually selecting with mouse.

When I try to select any given line of text in the search box (Ctrl+A), unlike in Trados 2017, it won't do anything. I know I can do it with Shift + left/right arrow, but I'm more used to using the other shortcut.

Is this a bug or an intended change in Trados 2021?

Many thanks.

Oana Nagy · Answer

Hi Rodrigo Rosales Not a problem at all as it maybe that your 2017 shortcuts have been customised. These can be addressed in 2021 by going to File - Options - Keyboard Shortcuts

I hope this helps 
 Lydia

Paul · Answer

Rodrigo Rosales 
 I can reproduce this in 2019 and 2021, so looks like the change came in 2019. I think there is a clash between this and the Ctrl+A that is used to select all text in the target segment you are in because if you remove, or change, that keyboard shortcut from here: 
 
 Then it all works fine. Probably not helpful given you most likely use Ctrl+A in the target segment to select text too, but at least that helps to identify the issue. There were some changes in 2019 around wide ranging selections, being able to select all segments for example, so perhaps things got changed there... not sure. 
 I would be interested in your usecase for selecting text to copy from this search window? Seems a rather unusual thing to do given you normally put text in there, not take it out. I imagine this issue went relatively undetected for this reason, so I am interested to know why you do it?

Paul · Answer

Rodrigo Rosales 
 Rodrigo Rosales said: Would it be possible to escalate this to the dev team? For me, while not a serious issue, it is sort of an annoyance, since I have to rely on a longer alternative to do that I want, which is to select everything in one go. 
 Of course. I don't think the priority will be very high, but it may be something simple once they look at it and then it could get delivered in an upcoming release.

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Select all bug in search box, Trados 2021