Confirming all segments at once

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Hi everybody, 
 It would be great to add a "Confirm all" option to the menu below. Often, at the end of a translation, you have to use the spellchecker and fix some typos or to do some cosmetic adjustments, such as replacing " ' " with " &rsquo; " in the whole document, which can affect many segments, moreover if it is a long translation. Then you have to confirm every modified segment one by one, which can be long. Unless I miss an option somewhere, there is no way to confirm everything at once. I actually found a solution in the forum, that involves highlighting all the segments, then changing their statuts into "confirmed", then batch updating manually the main TM from the translated file, but it is not really satisfying, since it is not strait forward. Why not adding a mere Confirm all command in the ribbon?

Paul · Answer

Willem Wunderink Alison Field Jerzy Czopik 
 I think we should try to keep things civil. I don't know why Willem felt the need to post here in the first place without knowing enough about Trados, but nonetheless let's keep the discussion civil please. 
 I thought I'd just do a quick video to show you one way to tackle the things mentioned, but there are many... just depends on how you're working and what your preferences are:

Paul · Answer

Emi Amber 
 Emi Amber said: Very useful video, but how do you mark all the segments if there are several thousand, I have tried to do this but it took almost a minute and I havent reached it halfways ... so I have tried ctrl + enter and the program crashed, it seems like it was too much to process... though I have a very good laptopp. 
 Indeed... doing this in the Editor isn't very performant. But you can use the SDLXLIFF Toolkit for this, and it's not only fast, but you can do multiple files and even multiple projects if you wish. Here's how it works:

Jerzy Czopik · Answer

Willem Wunderink said: In MemoQ it's simply called what it is: confirmed/unconfirmed, and I don't have to mouse select segments but I simply use Ctrl+Shift+A for selecting all segments and push the button 'Confirm' 
 Use the filter as shown for "draft" to have "unconfirmed" segments selected. You can also have segments filtered by not translated, translated and or example Perfect Match or context match and many more. You can combine many filters here. And the best is: when you filtered for something you do not need to reset the filter to have a different setting. Just enter different conditions and filter again, this will work. Then press a shortcut assigned to "select all", which might be CTRL+SHIFT+A (it is in my case, but I do not remember the shortcut coming out of the box, so check via File - Options - Keyboard shortcuts) and use the command "Change segment status" from the Home tab. It is exactly as simple as in memoQ. And you will find out, that you can customize many more things in Trados as in memoQ. 
 I do use memoQ still on very regular basis, but prefer to work in Trados. It was you who started to try to make things look bad. What you've done here was claiming things wouldn't work in Trados while these would work in memoQ, which is only partially true. Things do work in Trados, but a little bit differently. The learning curve for both programs is steep, but in my opinion, if you can use Trados, you can use memoQ. And the other way round.

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Confirming all segments at once

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