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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: […]

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 […]

“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 […]

“General massive catastrophic system failure” in Trados Studio is neither general nor massive, nor catastrophic On some occasions, Trados Studio shows a frightful message, “general massive catastrophic system failure.” This can happen in different versions of Trados Studio. The message is horrible: you may think planet Nibiru will crash into the Earth soon, and it is the right time to panic. Ironically, […]