Missing Find and Replace functionality in alignment editor view

Question

Hi,

The target language I'm working with is Persian.

I want to replace NoWidthOptionalBreak with another special character but there is no find & replace option in the alignment editor view.
I'm doing this because autosuggest does not include NoWidthOptionalBreak (even after adding it to QuickInsert to the word filetypes using the windows character map.). So I'm trying to replace it in the alignment editor view before importing confirmed alignments to TM.

source language -> English
target language -> Persian
I also provided a sample text for you to test

Version: Trados Studio 2022 - 17.0.4.13209

Trados Studio Options window showing QuickInsert settings for 'No width optional break' with empty fields for description and start text. Trados Studio alignment editor view with English source text on the left and Persian target text on the right, highlighting the term 'NoWidthOptionalBreak'. Trados Studio translation results window displaying a segment with the English source and Persian translation, with a red box around a special character.
Sample text (NoWidthOptionalBreak).docx

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[edited by: Trados AI at 8:43 AM (GMT 0) on 29 Feb 2024]

Steve Rawcliffe · Answer

Hi, 
 Would it be an acceptable workaround to do the search/replace in Word and align the English with the thereby-modified of the Persian? 
 Word does allow "No-width optional break" as a search argument for search and replace.

Jesús Prieto · Answer

Hi Arya. H , 
 In the alignment Editor there is a Find tool, but not a Replace one. If there are not many instances of that character, you can find and replace one by one. 
 If this is not possible, open the TM where you saved the alignment segments, and there you can Find & Replace all those characters. I've checked I could replace them by xx : 
 
 This is the dummy document I used : 
 
 and I got this Alignment project: 
 
 Then I replaced the special character in the Translation Memory View (first screen-shot above). 
 If you have a clean TM, then matches will be fine! 
 I hope it helps,

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Missing Find and Replace functionality in alignment editor view