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Ways to improve the usability of QuickPlace?

Hsi-Ting Wang

This is something that has been bothering me for a long time. I translate a lot of software strings with tokens and placeholders, and a lot of HTML/XML content with tags that need to be placed. I also translate English-Chinese so word order is frequently different, often having to completely reverse the sentence structure.

So when I activate QuickPlace, two things are actually hampering my productivity:

  1. Numbers and acronyms filling up the top of the QuickPlace list.
  2. Having to remove my hand from the typing position to use the arrow keys to select the tags I want.

I'd like to ask if there are ways to achieve the following:

  1. Only ever display actual placeholder tags in QuickPlace, regardless of TM configuration. (I work with a lot of small TMs specific to each job that gets updated by my client, so it's a chore to having to always change the TM settings.)
  2. Use a hotkey to "go to next placeholder" in the QuickPlace list.

Ideally, I'd love to have a Next and a Prev shortcut for navigating the QuickPlace pop-up list. But I'd settle for just having the QuickPlace shortcut act as the Next function, so I can Ctrl+OemComma to call the QuickPlace list, then mash Ctrl+OemComma to get to the tag I want.

I'm sure all the translation professionals can understand the pain of moving your hands away from the typing position for virtually every segment. Sometimes multiple times in the same segment.
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    Hi everyone,

    This thread is over 4 years old, but it showed up as I was going to post a question. Just as Hsi-Ting, this has also been bothering me for a long time. So, is there still no way to exclude acronyms from the QuickPlace list and only have tags?

    I could add that with MTPE, such a feature has become even more important in my opinion. When I do MTPE, I never have to insert acronyms, but often have to correct tag placement (e.g. clear all tags and insert them all). The same could be said when fixing fuzzies, as in the example below:

    Meanwhile, I gave up using QuickPlace for tags. But the Ctrl-click solution needs mouse movements, which is far from ideal.

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    Philippe
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    Hi everyone,

    This thread is over 4 years old, but it showed up as I was going to post a question. Just as Hsi-Ting, this has also been bothering me for a long time. So, is there still no way to exclude acronyms from the QuickPlace list and only have tags?

    I could add that with MTPE, such a feature has become even more important in my opinion. When I do MTPE, I never have to insert acronyms, but often have to correct tag placement (e.g. clear all tags and insert them all). The same could be said when fixing fuzzies, as in the example below:

    Meanwhile, I gave up using QuickPlace for tags. But the Ctrl-click solution needs mouse movements, which is far from ideal.

    --

    Philippe
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