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Only the patient wins the battle for the clipboard! While working in Trados Studio (and with texts in general), one has to perform numerous copy-and-paste operations by pressing CTRL+C and CTRL+V key combinations (you don’t copy texts with the help of your mouse, do you?). Translators are constantly looking up terms in dictionaries, reading specialized articles on the Internet, etc. However, […]

Customize font size in Trados Studio. Sometimes the font in Trados Studio documents appears to be too small and inconvenient to work with. Like this: The font in Trados Studio can be increased. Unfortunately, it must be done in a non-trivial way. Press File > Options > on the left panel and choose Font Adaptation. On the right panel, you will see four number fields: […]

The “Argument {0} is out of range” error in Trados Studio is easy to fix. One of the amazing errors in Trados Studio sometimes occurs when you try to save translation—i.e. after you press the CTRL + S key combination. It looks like this: To a non-specialist, this message yields little information. To be more precise, it is meaningless—one […]

You can select rectangular fragments in Word. Word offers a lot of commands for selecting text fragments. They are very well-chosen and easy to memorize: Symbols: Words: Lines: Paragraphs: Pages: As we see, the distinctive feature all these commands share is the usage of the SHIFT key. Apart from these selection methods, Word offers another astonishing opportunity known to a […]

“Culture is not supported” error can be fixed. When opening certain packages, Trados Studio gives you a mysterious unsupported culture message, something like this: In this case, there is only one thing clear about this message—it says that Trados Studio package can’t work with the Norwegian language (NO-NO is the code for Norwegian). But what does this language have to do […]

A very easy recovery of Trados Studio performance after the “Access to the path ‘F:System Volume Information’ is denied” error. Sometimes, Trados Studio gives a mysterious message while importing a package: Given that, it doesn’t import the package, the project doesn’t appear in the list, and it is impossible to work. At the same time, the System Volume […]

You can open the Create Project page in Protemos with one shortcut. Some of you use Protemos as a translation project management system. It is simple and convenient, and if you create many projects a day, you can speed up your work and get rid of tedious and routine actions. To create a project in Protemos, you need to […]

You can search in Trados Studio in both source and target without a mouse! Like any other serious CAT tool, Trados Studio helps you work by allowing you to search in concordance—i.e., in the translation memory attached to a Trados Studio project you work on. There is a dedicated shortcut: F3. (By the way, it is the same in the ancient Trados 2007.) […]

You can start or close a program with only one shortcut. 99.9% of users start programs with a mouse. The quickest way to start a program with a mouse is to double-click its icon on the desktop. This action seems to be as simple as possible, but it includes several even simpler actions: Starting programs […]

Be careful with tag appearance in Trados Studio! Look at the screenshot below: It is an ordinary text in an ordinary Trados Studio document, isn’t it? You translated it and everything looks good. But if you try to perform a QA (press F8), you suddenly receive multiple error messages about tag mismatches. You are puzzled, as there are only five […]