• State Suggested Answer
  • Replies 14 replies
  • Answers 1 answer
  • Subscribers 433 subscribers
  • Views 9576 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related

copying only a part of source to target.

ahmet alpan

hi

my problem is to copy only a part of source line to target. l know how to do this in memoq and it is very easy. you just select the part you want and

right click on options comes and you select copy selected to target but l couldn't find this option in trados. please help mi if it is possible to do so.
Rate translation
×
Suggest better translation
×
Moderator UI
×
  • Get AI Suggestion
Parents Reply
  • 0 in reply to ahmet alpan

    the advantage is you dont need to go anywhere. you can do it with a simple right click

    When you right click a part of the text, the text MUST be selected prior to doing so. So you have to go there - and even to right click you have to take the mouse in your hand and move it. So I fail to see this huge advantage you are talking about.

    Then the question remains, which parts of the text do you want to copy? For alphanumerics in Studio you press CTRL+, and don't even have to use mouse. Same applies for variables and tags.

    And in the end of the day: MemoQ is a different product, offering different possibilities. You cannot expect other program to do exactly the same. Word and InDesign both can produce text documents, but their possibilities vary strongly. I don't think InDesign user will expect this program to behave like Word and vice versa. Bot MQ and Studio have their strengths, but they differ. It depends on the user, which functions are more important. In my opinion, when I take all my needs Studio is far superior to MQ. But for different user the situation may be different.

    _________________________________________________________

    When asking for help here, please be as accurate as possible. Please always remember to give the exact version of product used and all possible error messages received. The better you describe your problem, the better help you will get.

    Want to learn more about Trados Studio? Visit the Community Hub. Have a good idea to make Trados Studio better? Publish it here.

Children
  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    I guess a nice workaround would be to use autohotkey. I'm wondering if it would make sense to start building a collection of autohotkey scripts so users could borrow them for all kinds of little things like this.

    wdyt?

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub

  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik
    You don't need any right click in memoQ for that, you just select the desired source text, position the cursor in the target text's position where you want to insert that text and just click ctrl+shift+t, so you are using JUST ONE step instead of two, and that is actually nice. I think you should study a little more before answering like you did. I use both pieces of software and for some situations memoQ is better (in my opinion), for example when you are dealing with joining or splitting segments, in other situations Studio is better, of course. And the comparison about Word and InDesign is out of context, they are oriented for different purposes, memoQ and Studio are, both of them, CAT tools...
  • 0 in reply to Juan Bernardo Alonso
    I am sorry to have obviously hurt your feelings. Nonetheless the comparison of MemoQ and Studio is as valid as the comparison of Word and InDesign in terms of text processing. Different programs, different possibilities. It is exactly as you say, in some parts the way MemoQ works might be considered to be better, sometimes Studio beats MemoQ. But in the end of the day important is to have a tool to work with, which you know as perfect as possible. It seems MemoQ does fit you better - fine. But what we can't in any case is to expect OpenOffice Writer to act same way as Word does or Thunderbird to be an exact copy of Outlook and so on. There are and there will be differences between all tools. If only shortcuts would distinguish programs, we could be forced to use a software which might have been far worse than Studio or MemoQ. In my opinion it is good, that at least these two tools differ - because that way they supplement each other and I for one can do a much wider variety of work due to usage of MemoQ (for some preparation steps) and Studio (for translating).

    As for segment merging: Studio 2017 beats MemoQ, as you CAN merge always. Of course merging in some formats can be dangerous, so MemoQ simply blocks this opportunity, but if you know what you do and WHEN you do it, you can in Studio.

    _________________________________________________________

    When asking for help here, please be as accurate as possible. Please always remember to give the exact version of product used and all possible error messages received. The better you describe your problem, the better help you will get.

    Want to learn more about Trados Studio? Visit the Community Hub. Have a good idea to make Trados Studio better? Publish it here.

  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik
    First of all, you didn't hurt my feelings, you hurt somebody else's feelings and I was trying to answer a simple technical question you didn't know how to answer...Second, "MemoQ and Studio is as valid as the comparison of Word and InDesign in terms of text processing" is just like saying that we can compare Autocad and Maya in terms of 3D, look, I am, besides a translator, a CG artist, and really know about that, OpenOffice Writer and Word are practically the same, and you can expect that, InDesign IS NOT a word processing tool as Word is, but please, let's leave all this nonsense, this was about "how the hell could I do something I always do in memoQ?", you didn't know, but answered, I knew and corrected, that's all. Besides, no problem, sorry if I sounded rude, I didn't mean to. Cheers .
  • 0 in reply to Paul

    Unknown said:

    I guess a nice workaround would be to use autohotkey. I'm wondering if it would make sense to start building a collection of autohotkey scripts so users could borrow them for all kinds of little things like this.

    wdyt?

     

     

    I vote yes on this, Paul!
  • 0 in reply to Nora Díaz
    I think I'll work on creating an AHK wiki in the community somewhere sensible then. Separate article for each script so we can build up a library of interesting things.

    Cheers

    Paul

    Paul Filkin | RWS Group

    ________________________
    Design your own training!
    You've done the courses and still need to go a little further, or still not clear? 
    Tell us what you need in our Community Solutions Hub