Hello Pilar García-Romeu ,

Please try to do a trados repair using the workaround from this article:

https://gateway.sdl.com/articles/en_US/SolutionArticles/000001414

Best regards,

Ana-Maria Matefi

Hi Ana-Maria,

Thanks for your reply. Sorry for taking so long in answering. I only had time to put it all into practice today.

I regret to say that nothing worked. The find and replace box keeps showing outside Studio.

Please let me know how to proceed.

Thanks again,

PIlar

Pilar García-Romeu 

I think I like as it is. Otherwise, I’d need to press CTRL+F to bring the Find and replace window back.

What I mean is that the box remains on screen over Google, or Word, or Excel. It should remain open just in Studio. No need to press Ctrl+F again when going back to Studio from outside

Pilar García-Romeu 

I know, you mean as Microsoft Word works.

Sorry, I don't understand:)

Pilar García-Romeu 

Microsoft Word has a Find and Replace window, and I believe that its behaviour is the one you would like to have in Trados Studio, am I right?

Exactly!

Hi people, has this issue been resolved somehow? I have just bought the 2022 version and I also have this VERY ANNOYING problem!!

Can you tell me how to eliminate it?

Valeria Maria Tafel 

This has still not been resolved, and a quick search of the ideas section didn't help me find a request for this either... so I'm wondering if anyone actually followed up on the advice from Jesús Prieto to create one?

Anyway... I did remember this post which offers a solution to the problem if you use AutoHotkey:

 RE: Studio 2022 Find/Replace dialog box is always displayed on top 

Valeria Maria Tafel 

In fact I found one!!

 Please make optional whether Find & Replace window is always on top or NOT 

Only got 7 votes (including mine) so can't be that much of a problem out of our thousands of users ;-)

Paul 

Paul said:

This has still not been resolved, and a quick search of the ideas section didn't help me find a request for this either

I couldn’t find the idea either.

I think the AutoHotkey script doesn’t solve the issue. The issue is that the Find and Replace dialog box remains on screen even if switched to another application. The AutoHotkey script makes that dialog box always on top, while the desired behaviour would be to hide it when Trados Studio is not active, and bring it back when Trados Studio is active. Pretty much like the Word application and its Find and replace dialog box. At least this is what understood from Pilar García-Romeu …

I believe that the idea you found is already implemented.

Paul 

Paul said:

This has still not been resolved, and a quick search of the ideas section didn't help me find a request for this either

I couldn’t find the idea either.

I think the AutoHotkey script doesn’t solve the issue. The issue is that the Find and Replace dialog box remains on screen even if switched to another application. The AutoHotkey script makes that dialog box always on top, while the desired behaviour would be to hide it when Trados Studio is not active, and bring it back when Trados Studio is active. Pretty much like the Word application and its Find and replace dialog box. At least this is what understood from Pilar García-Romeu …

I believe that the idea you found is already implemented.

Jesús Prieto 

Jesús Prieto said:

I believe that the idea you found is already implemented.

Why do you believe that?  IT's under community review, but not implemented.

Paul 

Sorry, my bad. I was too quick to look for the idea and comment here.

Jesús Prieto 

Also...

Jesús Prieto said:

I think the AutoHotkey script doesn’t solve the issue. The issue is that the Find and Replace dialog box remains on screen even if switched to another application. The AutoHotkey script makes that dialog box always on top, while the desired behaviour would be to hide it when Trados Studio is not active, and bring it back when Trados Studio is active.

That was indeed the original script.  But please note that I edited it to do the opposite.  I cannot test it right now because I moved to AHK 2.0 on my new laptop and all my scripts give me a headache now and I have not changed this one yet.  But it did work with the old AHK version and provided the desired behaviour... for me at least.