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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 […]

Don’t let programs change your text automatically Modern CAT tools are doing their best to make translator’s work easier. For instance, they try to correct errors made by users. Some error types they consider extremely obvious by and therefore correct automatically without asking users for the permission to do so. Driven by the desire to help, […]

Mozilla Thunderbird is not able to use Microsoft Word spelling engine, but checking spelling still is possible. Many of us use Mozilla Thunderbird for emails. It is an ancient but powerful free email client. Spelling errors in emails you send look ugly. So you should know how to check spelling in Thunderbird.  First, you need to prepare your Thunderbird so it can […]

Xliff Editor can be configured to underline mistakes like Word. Recent posts in this blog described how to enable check spelling with Microsoft Word spelling engine in the following programs: Now we shall talk about Xliff Editor. This CAT is a part of the Translation Workspace system, and it works with usual “offline” files by connecting to online resources (translation memory, termbases, etc.). […]

Your browser can check spelling in the way Word does. We have already set the spelling check in Word, memoQ, Wordfast, Trados Studio, and Passolo. All of these programs are standalone software for PCs. But many CAT tools are so-called SaaS—”Software as a Service”. They are not software, but rather services providing online access to servers. There are many of them; the […]

Passolo can check spelling using Word spelling engine. In earlier posts, we configured spelling checks in Word, memoQ, Trados Studio, and Wordfast. Today our point of interest is Passolo. Passolo is a CAT tool developed by SDL for the translation of user interfaces (UI) and video games. It is available in several editions: In all of them, the method is the same: In Passolo, […]

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: (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 […]

Wordfast can check spelling using the Word spelling engine. Recently, we discussed how to check spelling in Word and memoQ. This post is devoted to Wordfast. In Wordfast, please select Edit > Preferences. In the dialog window that appears please click Spelling on the left pane: The screenshot is made in somewhat obsolete version 2.3.0, but the way to configure the spell-checking is similar in the subsequent […]

memoQ can check spelling using the Word spelling engine. A week time ago, we discussed how to enable and configure spell-checks in Word. This time we will make similar adjustments in memoQ. memoQ allows you to check spelling with open-source Hunspell dictionaries or with Microsoft Word engine (that is why we started the series of posts about spelling from Word). To configure […]

Word is the most important program for spell-checking. According to modern quality standards, spelling mistakes are a relic of the past: they are not acceptable at all. If some word is underlined with red, it is an obvious reason to check it. This may seem strange, but in many programs, both “regular” ones and CAT tools, by default […]