"CTRL F" does not work

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I am using Studio 2021 and I noticed that "CTRL F" does not work. 
 Please help. 
 Kind regards 
 Ivan Bertrand

Alison Field · Answer

Ivan Bertrand Paul Jerzy Czopik 
 Hi guys, 
 In order to figure out what Ivan was meaning when he said he could see the Find and Replace window but it was empty, I dragged my Find and Replace window downwards off my screen (not onto one of my other screens) then when I hovered my cursor over the Studio icon in the bottom toolbar, I could still see that the F&R window was open but it was blank as in my image above. 
 Then, I set about finding out how to bring it back onto the screen and found that if I right-clicked on the blank F&R window, I got the option to 'Move' and with it, a 'Move' icon made up of a horizontal+vertical cross each arm of which had an arrow at the end. I found I could drag this upwards sufficiently to make the full Find and Replace window reappear on the screen. 
 Maybe this link will lead to instructions that will work for Ivan Bertrand 
 https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/bring-misplaced-off-screen-windows-back-to-your-desktop-keyboard-trick/ 
 Fingers crossed 
 All the best 
 Ali

Alison Field · Answer

Lynn Webb 
 Hi Lynn, 
 I would say it is better that the Find & Replace dialog box is behind when not needed. Ctrl+F will bring it forward when you need it. If it always stayed forward, you'd have to close it or move it to see what's behind it. I usually close it when I no longer need it, because the last item searched stays highlighted until the dialog is closed. 
 If you want to see it all the time and your screen is big enough, you could resize Trados to smaller than the screen and drag the Find and Replace window so it is next to the Trados window. Or, of course if you use 2 screens you can drag it to the second screen, which is what I do if I need to do a lot of Finds at once... 
 All the best! 
 Ali

Alison Field · Answer

Hélène Paquin 
 Hi H&eacute;l&egrave;ne, 
 I'm very pleased I was able to help! 
 Re " I even used the window below (which make all non-relevant segments disappear... scary!)"... The display filter (Filtre d'affichage sur l'interface fran&ccedil;aise) is very useful when you want to only see segments that respond to specific search criteria. All other segments are hidden, not lost 
 
 T here is also an advanced display filter in Studio 2017, which you might find useful... It is explained in the French Studio 2017 online documentation, here: 
 https://docs.rws.com/791918/428085/sdl-trados-studio-2017/combinaison-de-plusieurs-criteres-de-recherche-de-segments-grace-au-filtre-d-affichage-avance 
 Anything else that you might like to read about, you can search for at the top or use the menu on the left pane to find... 
 I hope this helps! 
 Thank you for saying "thank you"! 
 All the best, 
 Ali

Paul · Answer

Ivan Bertrand 
 Maybe check the obvious first and ensure it's not just displaying the find dialogue on a different screen, or behind your open windows? 
 Or, perhaps make sure you don't have some keyboard clash within Trados Studio or with some other application you have running? 
 It would also be useful to know where you are trying to use this feature?

Alison Field · Answer

Ivan Bertrand Jerzy Czopik Paul 
 Is this what you are seeing? 
 
 If yes, then the last time you used Ctrl+F you somehow dragged the Find box off your screen. 
 The way I resolve this is the following: 
 Right-click on the white blank Fin... window and select 'Move' from the dropdown menu that appears. Then, you should see a 4-pointed arrow icon appear at the edge of your screen nearest the point at which the Find box has gone beyond your display. Put the arrow to drag it back to your screen. 
 Hopefully this will work. 
 Let us know if this works or not... 
 All the best, 
 Ali

Paul · Answer

Ivan Bertrand 
 Ivan Bertrand said: I get this find and replace windows, but it is empty 
 So... I'm going to guess what you are doing. 
 
 you select a word in the editor view 
 you press Ctrl+F 
 the find and replace window appears 
 the selected word isn't there 
 
 Correct?

Alison Field · Answer

Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling?

Alison Field · Answer

Hi Ivan Bertrand 
 OK, let's go back to the instructions I sent regarding the 'Move' icon, when right-clicking on the empty white rectangle that pops up from the bottom toolbar if you hover over the Studio icon... 
 
 After you right-click on the white rectangle, left click on ' Move' on the context menu then rather than trying to use the cursor, press the appropriate arrow key on your keyboard to move the dialog box back on-screen. 
 So if the 'Move' icon appears at the top, click the 'down' arrow. If it appears at the bottom, click the 'Up' arrow on your keyboard, left>right or right>left... 
 All the best, 
 Ali

Lynn Webb · Answer

The window pops up, but it is behind the main window for some reason. They need to change the focus to the Find & Replace dialog box so it is on top.

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