Overview: Translator Toolbar

The Translator Toolbar is designed to centralize all the functions that a Translator needs to carry out their work efficiently and quickly.

	Translated Text Window
	Translations are entered into this window. Inline tags are displayed graphically and can be moved or deleted using a combination of the keyboard and mouse. Misspelt words are highlighted with a red underline and suggested spellings are displayed in ().
	Source Text Window
	This is the original source language text. This may contain red over-lines that indicate that a word is available in the glossary and is displayed in the Glossary Reference window (). If a translation memory suggestion is located and displayed in the main Reference window () this window may contain colored markups to distinguish text that has been added, moved or deleted. This should be used in conjunction with the % Fuzzy Match figure to determine how good a suggested translation is.
	Reference Window
	This window displays Translation Memory matches as well as Machine Translation suggestions.
	Glossary Window
	This window displays translation suggestions from glossary files. You can also configure new glossary files by clicking Glossary Source.
	Spelling Suggestions
	This displays suggested spellings for misspelt words in the Translated Text window. You can configure a Spell Checker by going to the General Options dialog box.

Button	Description
Previous Item	Click this button to move to the previous item in the project.
Previous String	Click this button (or use the keyboard shortcut [SHIFT]+[ENTER] move to the previous string.
Next String	Click this button (or use the [ENTER] key) to advance to the next string.
Next Item	Click this button to advance to the next item in your project.
Undo	Click this button to undo the most recent operation.
Redo	Click this button to redo the most recent undo operation.
Toggle Bi-di	Click this button to switch between normal and bidirectional text entry. This is useful for working on Arabic or Hebrew texts.
Set/Reset Lock	Click this button to apply a lock to the currently selected string.
Set/Reset Translated	Click this button to set or reset the Translation Status of a string.
Set/Reset Review	Click this button to set or reset the For Review status of a string.
Set/Reset Signoff	Click this button to set or reset the Signed Off status of a string.
Spell Check	Click this button to perform a Spell Check on the currently selected string.

Select the segment or group of segments from the Workspace pane.

Click to Lock each selected segment;
Click to mark each segment as Untranslated;
Click to mark each segment For Review;
Click to mark each segment as Signed Off.

Fuzzy matches are displayed in the Translation Reference pane.

Additional fuzzy matches can be viewed by clicking the cursors keys.

Keyboard Shortcuts for Next/Previous Fuzzy Match are: [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + > and [CTRL] + [SHIFT] + <

In most cases, when one or more fuzzy matches are found for the current source segment, you need to edit the suggested translation.

The differences between the new source segment and the translation memory segment are highlighted automatically.

Quickly Identifying Differences

To allow the translator to see the differences between the source segment and its fuzzy match equivalent changed words are highlighted using the following convention:

Highlight	Description	TRADOS Equivalent
Underline	Indicates the presence of new text between the source text and the text displayed in the reference pane.	Blue colored text
Double Underline	Indicates that additional words/phrases have been added to the new source segment.	Grey colored text
Strike-thru	Indicates that words/phrases exist in both source and target but have been moved.	Yellow colored text

Active Translation Memories

A translation memory is said to be Active when it is listed in the Active TM tab of the Translator Toolbar.

An Active TM can be used for translation lookups and any suggestions found are displayed in the Reference pane.

	Use a Translation Memory for translation lookups.
	Configure a Glossary for terminology suggestions.
	Work with inline tags while translating a segment.
	Use the PowerTranslate toolbar to select translations from the Reference pane.

Overview: Translator Toolbar