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How to Turn Off Automatic Error Correction in Trados Studio

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Don’t let Trados Studio change your text without your permission!

Why you should turn off automatic error correction and how to do it in Word, we’ve already discussed in our previous post. Now we will show you how to set the same in Trados Studio.

Select File > Options > in the Options dialog box, on the left panel choose Editor > AutoCorrect > on the right panel specify the language of the TARGET text (here it is Ukrainian) > uncheck the items in the Change how Studio corrects text as you type menu:

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If you work with several languages, repeat this procedure for other languages too. And press OK.

After this, Trados Studio won’t be messing up with your translation.

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