Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter 

Have you used the QuickInsert method? Just press CTRL+comma and the tags will be suggested for insertion. You can also take the mouse, press CTRL and klick on the source text between the tag pair you want to insert. Or select the corresponding text in target and then press CTRL+ALT+ARROW RIGHT (LEFT). Studio will highlight the tag pari to be inserted, when you release the keys.

This is a nice topic to be suggested here: community.rws.com/.../

Yes, I have used the QuickInsert method. But this still generates a lot of effort when we talk about several thousands of tags:

1. CTRL comma
2. Select the correct opening tag (I often have several tag types in one segment)
3. Enter

4. CTRL comma
5. Select the correct closing tag
6. Enter

Instead, I wanted to search for all segments containing the same chunk of info, e.g. <uicontrol>Enter</uicontrol> and copy-paste this chunk in the target.

Note that I'm not translating anew but need to add tags to the translation that were inserted at a later point in time.

EDIT: *I'm not translating from scratch"

Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter 

QuickInsert insert a tag pair, so in this very case it should insert <uicontrol>Enter</uicontrol> with ONE command. If it does not, something is wrong with your file type.

Please also note, that you cannot search and replace with tags. And please also note, that some tags can be inserted via match repair, Trados Studio recognizes tags in matches and is able to insert missing ones in target, however not always.

From what I am aware, there is no tool which would do something like this automatically. If the target text is a html or xml file, inserting tags around GUI elements might be easier in the final text, using a text editor like Notepad++ and regex.

Gerrit Bayer-Hohenwarter 

QuickInsert insert a tag pair, so in this very case it should insert <uicontrol>Enter</uicontrol> with ONE command. If it does not, something is wrong with your file type.

Please also note, that you cannot search and replace with tags. And please also note, that some tags can be inserted via match repair, Trados Studio recognizes tags in matches and is able to insert missing ones in target, however not always.

From what I am aware, there is no tool which would do something like this automatically. If the target text is a html or xml file, inserting tags around GUI elements might be easier in the final text, using a text editor like Notepad++ and regex.

Thank you!