Trados 2017 Quickinsert feature
Thread poster: Lucia Messuti
Lucia Messuti
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Aug 23, 2017

I had seen in a post from Nora Diaz that you can quickly insert words, tags, numbers, terms from termbase and special characters just with ctrl + alt + right arrow. I treid it and it worked.

Then, I don't understand what happened but later it didn't work anymore. Maybe it is due to the file type I'm working at? I didn't find any customization in the Options and I don't even get the Quickinsert tab in the ribbon above.

Do you have any tip about this?

Thanks


 
Lucia Messuti
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Quickplace not Quickinsert Aug 23, 2017

I'm sorry, the right name for this feature is Quickplace

 
Nora Diaz
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Only tags Aug 24, 2017

Hi Lucia,

Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow is an undocumented shortcut to insert tags but not other placeables. For other placeables (as defined in your TM settings, which can include Dates, Times, Numbers, Acronyms, Variables, Measurements and Alphanumeric strings), I use Ctrl+Alt+Down, but I think the default Studio shortcut is Ctrl+Comma. Terms from the termbases can be inserted either by typing the first few letters (AutoSuggest) or you can display a list of all the available terms in the s
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Hi Lucia,

Ctrl+Alt+Right arrow is an undocumented shortcut to insert tags but not other placeables. For other placeables (as defined in your TM settings, which can include Dates, Times, Numbers, Acronyms, Variables, Measurements and Alphanumeric strings), I use Ctrl+Alt+Down, but I think the default Studio shortcut is Ctrl+Comma. Terms from the termbases can be inserted either by typing the first few letters (AutoSuggest) or you can display a list of all the available terms in the segment with Ctrl+Shift+L.

Shortcuts can be accessed and customized by going to Options - Keyboard Shortcuts.

Hope that helps!

PS If you like AutoHotkey, we now have a pretty cool script to insert tags with a single keystroke, which you can select yourself. You can find it in the SDL Community AutoHotkey forum, here: https://community.sdl.com/solutions/language/translationproductivity/f/400/t/12964
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Lucia Messuti
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Thanks Aug 24, 2017

Thanks Nora for explaining all this.

Lucia


 
Lucia Messuti
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Managing Capitalized terms Aug 24, 2017

If you get a capitalized term or an acronym (all uppercase), is there a way to get it copied with a key in the target segment?

Thanks


 
Wojciech_ (X)
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Yest, there is Aug 24, 2017

Lucia Messuti wrote:

If you get a capitalized term or an acronym (all uppercase), is there a way to get it copied with a key in the target segment?

Thanks


Download Regex Match Autosuggest app from the SDL appstore and then in its setup window set all the REgex expressions you need. I think some examples of regex expressions are on Nora's website
http://noradiaz.blogspot.com/2015/07/a-collection-of-regular-expressions-for.html
and on Paul Filkin's blog:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JArEfadopkQ


 
Nora Diaz
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... Aug 24, 2017

If you have Acronyms enabled in your TM settings, then you will be able to insert them with your regular QuickPlace shortcut. They will be displayed in a list for you to choose from. I personally prefer the Regex Match AutoSuggest provider, as suggested by Wojciech, which allows you to start typing and get the suggestion.

 
Ulrich Schramm
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SDL localisation problem Dec 29, 2022

"Quickplace" - sounds good, but my SDL is in German and all keyboard functions are translated to German. So "Quickplace" does not exist there. One should be able to switch that to the original language (English) in SDL. This is all not 100% thought through.

 
Ulrich Schramm
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The keyboard shortcuts has no search field Dec 29, 2022

I have briefly estimated that about 430 keyboard shortcuts are displayed. A search field would not be bad to find the right keyboard shortcut faster.

 
Stepan Konev
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Ulrich Schramm wrote:

I have briefly estimated that about 430 keyboard shortcuts are displayed. A search field would not be bad to find the right keyboard shortcut faster.
There is one. Go to Welcome > Home > Show Shortcuts > press Ctrl+F

You don't visit or change the Keyboard Shortcuts options every day, do you? Therefore you can 'print' it as PDF to have it always at hand and check it when you need that.

[Edited at 2022-12-29 21:50 GMT]


 


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