Home Blog How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio

our blog

How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio

How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 1
26 May 2017

Trados Studio can check spelling using Word spelling engine

After Word, memoQ, and Wordfast, we get to Trados Studio. Here is how to enable and configure spelling checks in SDL Trados Studio.

In Trados Studio, please select File > Options. Options dialog window appears:

How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 2

(The screenshot is made in Trados Studio 2021, but the process in the other versions is similar.)

Select Editor on the left pane > click Spelling in the list of items that appear.

In the pop-up list Active Spell Checker on the right, please choose MS Word Spell Checker.

We advise you to set the checkbox Check spelling as you type, so Trados Studio will underline spelling errors with red immediately after typing a word. Lower, you can specify whether spelling errors in locked segments, 100% matches, and CM/PM matches are to be ignored.

Recommended content

How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 3

Artificial Intelligence is not Intelligence

A few thoughts on artificial intelligence For an AI chatbot like ChatGPT to work, it first needs to train the Large Language Model (LLM) it relies on using a huge amount of text data. Modern LLMs are trained on almost everything that can be found on the internet. The texts generated by chatbots are often […]
Knowledge Hub
How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 4

Where will experienced translators come from if there are fewer inexperienced ones on the market?

Abstract semi-philosophical considerations Machine translation is gradually pushing out of the market those translators who cannot keep up with it in terms of quality, i.e., those who are not very experienced. As a result, the ratio of experienced to inexperienced translators should theoretically gradually change in favor of the former. This seems to be a […]
Knowledge Hub
How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 5

How to fix «Failed to save target content: Cannot find central directory» error in Trados Studio

About the ways to fix the issue in Trados Studio When trying to generate a translated document in Trados Studio, this error sometimes occurs: Failed to save target content: Cannot find central directory. It happens because of corrupted data in the source file used to create and store the SDLXLIFF file you translated in Trados […]
Knowledge Hub
How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 6

How to fix «Failed to open return package» error in Trados Studio

About another issue in Trados Studio When importing a package, Trados Studio might say that it Failed to open return package, because it contains a project that does not exist in your setup. That it’s not a Trados Studio issue, but yours: you tried to import a return package for a project Trados Studio doesn’t […]
Knowledge Hub
How to Enable and Configure Spelling Check in Trados Studio - 7

Lorem ipsum

About the dummy or placeholder text Lorem ipsum is a meaningless Latin text, so-called dummy or placeholder text, which is used to estimate how a layout will look with text presented in a particular font. This is usually done by designers, but it is also needed for pseudo-localization. This text became widely popular due to […]
Knowledge Hub