our blog
How to turn off automatic error correction in Trados Studio
07 December 2018
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:
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.
Recommended content
Haiti not Tahiti, Dominicana not Dominica
Linguogeographic notes The country of Haiti occupies a third of the island of Hispaniola, once called Hayti and still called so in many languages, other than Romano-Germanic, due to the confusion of their speakers. The remaining two-thirds is occupied by the Dominican Republic, sometimes also called Dominicana. A highly puzzling region. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere and the only […]
Cherokee writing system: familiar but weird
About using symbols A Native American chief named Sequoyah, also known to the world as George Guess, knew no English but often saw European settlers writing in it. His native language was Cherokee, which at that time (the early 19th century) did not yet have an alphabet. Realizing that sounds could be represented by signs and […]
The amusing homophony of English
Amusing to tears In English, due to its twisted spelling, it is not always possible to exactly identify the word pronounced. What is meant by [raɪt]—right, rite, wright, write? Pronounced similarly and written differently, these words are called homophones. Lots of jokes are based on homophony. For instance, May 4 is celebrated as the so-called Star Wars Day because the […]
A bear’s service to aspiring translators
That infamous awkward moment On an annoyingly regular basis, we find ourselves in the same situation: some John Smith says, “Hey, I know you do translations professionally, and my daughter (sister, niece) just happens to have graduated with a linguistics degree and is now looking for a job. She speaks English (German, French) so great! […]
