Hi Claudia,

I've encountered the same issue while working on two documents simultaneously. Have you managed to find a solution? Thanks in advance for your help!

Best,
Maja

Hello Maja,

no, I am still waiting for a solution or reply from RWS ( ). I technically could open one of the documents in an older version of Trados which I still have on my computer which wouldn't really be a solution long-term as it is quite an old version (2011). I am not sure if you could also open the documents in the "Open in Review" mode (see Lydia's question and image above).

Kind regards,

Claudia

Thank you for your reply! I guess that opening them in Review mode would solve the issue, but some of my clients prefer that I work in Translation mode. Still, this has never happened to me in older versions of Trados, so I'm guessing it must be some kind of bug. Let's hope that Lydia can give us more information

Best,
Maja

Maja Matić 

Maja Matić said:

I guess that opening them in Review mode would solve the issue, but some of my clients prefer that I work in Translation mode

Pardon, but how on earth your customer can prefer this? This is not their business, not at all! Please do not allow our customer to rein our souls. You are working with the tool they request, how come they to tell you how to work with it? This is solely YOUR (OUR) business. It is enough, that the customer invent a new "perfect" tool nearly every day, request discounts and who knows what more. But this? I'd never would care about such a dumb request.

Maja Matić 

Maja Matić said:

I guess that opening them in Review mode would solve the issue, but some of my clients prefer that I work in Translation mode

Pardon, but how on earth your customer can prefer this? This is not their business, not at all! Please do not allow our customer to rein our souls. You are working with the tool they request, how come they to tell you how to work with it? This is solely YOUR (OUR) business. It is enough, that the customer invent a new "perfect" tool nearly every day, request discounts and who knows what more. But this? I'd never would care about such a dumb request.

Hi Jerzy, thank you for your input! I actually also prefer this method and, as you already said, this is solely my business and is not the point of this post. The point is that, in older versions of Trados, the Track changes function would not turn off automatically when moving from one document to another. This is, however, happening in the new version and is a bit impractical.
I'm sorry if you have trouble with demanding customers and my post upset you in some way, especially considering that it was not directed at you, but at someone from RWS who might be interested in looking into this issue.

Best,
Maja

Maja Matić 

Sorry for being a bit upset, but unfortunately, the experience from past few years with customer expectations, especially in terms of CAT usage, are fully disillusioning...

Coming back to your problem, what do you mean with track changes being switched off between documents? Do you check documents one by one instead of opening them via virtual merge? And are you aware, that you can switch track changes on and off by a keyboard shortcut? Default is CTRL+ALT+F10. Takes no time...