Marcel Hlbočan 

That's a tricky one, because Trados Studio's inconsistency check is for identical segments, not for similar segments. There are a few options though.

Display fuzzy segments even if there is an exact match.

Let's assume this is my text, I am translating and in segment 5, and Trados Studio displays the TM match from segment 1 to me, because they are 96% matching. This is what you describe.

Later on, I am reviewing, I changed the translation of "ticket" in segment one. Now I am in segment 5 again:

Trados displays the context match to me, but it also displays fuzzy matches. It's an option you have to activate in project settings:

That would be the easiest and most flexible way in mid-translation, so to speak. You get segments displayed that are similar in the source language, independent of whether you altered the translation or not.

Other options

If you know ahead of your translation that you will be dealing with a variety of products that don't need to be translated, you can define the respective terms as labels. I have done so for the three ticket names here: "Arius", "Sirius" and "Betelgeuse".

When translating, Studio auto-propagates my translation:

And in Review mode, after I change "Ihr Ticket" into "Ihre Fahrkarte", I get this:

This is pretty cool, but the labels have to match 100%. So if you have "Sirius" once and "Sirium" somewhere else it won't work. And you have to know your labels ahead of time.

A very similar path is to define these words not as labels (in the TM), but as tags (at project generation):

And you get basically the same situation when you change something during review:

The main difference is that you can't change the tag in the translation (so you'd be stuck if the target language would require some inflection etc.) and it's stored in the TM differently. With the labels approach, you'd get three TM entries with this text, while with the tags approach you'd get one TM entry that knows there is a tag, but it does not know what the tag contains. You have to decide what you want.

Hope this helps a bit. There might be more options, but just off the top of my head, these three came to mind.

Daniel

Wow, thank you so much. Do you work in customer support ;) ? Rarely have I seen such comprehensive and detailed answer. For my translations only the first approach would be usable, since there can be also other changes besides the name.

 Marcel Hlbočan 

No, I don't work in customer support! I am totally uninvolved in RWS, except being a Trados user. There are parts of Trados that have quite a learning curve, and I received good help here, so I also help others. That's all.

Have a happy day!

And it's great having you as part of this community  !

Thanks Paul - I also enjoy working with you, and with all the other Trados users who contribute here!

Actually, I did not mean Trados support, just customer support in general :) Your suggestion helped a lot and works a treat. If I may have another question, is there a way to force Trados to open the Files view when I close a file in the Editor? I have loads of small files and every time I finish translating and close one, I end up in the Translation memory view and I cannot find the option to change that behaviour. Thanks in advance.