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Gloomy October Day’s Post
04 October 2017
Relax!
When translators are going crazy with the amount of work and tight deadlines, they want to relax. One of the mainstream CATs (memoQ, of course) has a special tool for this. Even two tools!
The first one: put on your headset and go to memoQ > Options > Go Zen:
You will obviously know Zen.
The second thing (if the first thing is not enough): go to memoQ > Options > Do Not Press This Button:
(It was a joke :) )
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