Appendix B. Translation Editor - Keyboard Cheat Sheet

When you are working on a translation, these are the most important keyboard shortcuts you can use. But beware: these keyboard shortcuts can be changed, and then the contents of this table won’t be true anymore.

Ctrl+Enter

Confirms the current segment and saves the translation to the working translation memory

 

Ctrl+Shift+Enter

Confirms the segment without adding the translation to the working translation memory

Ctrl+Space

Inserts the selected translation result into the target cell

 

Ctrl+1 … Ctrl+9

Inserts the translation result with the same number in the target cell

Ctrl+J

Joins the current segment with the next one

Ctrl+T

Splits the current segment into two at the current position

F9

Copies the next tag sequence into the target segment

Ctrl+E

Adds new term to a term base. You need to type the translation

Ctrl+Q

Adds a new term to the first-ranked term base without asking anything (you need to select text in the source and the target text before that)

Ctrl+K

Concordance: finds the selection in the translation memories, and displays a list of them

 

Ctrl+Z

Undo

Ctrl+U

Underlines the selected text or removes the underline

Ctrl+Shift+S

Copies all text from the source cell into the target

Shift+F3

Switches selected text to uppercase and back

Ctrl+F

Finds text in the translation grid (press Ctrl+F again for advanced options)

Ctrl+Shift+L

Locks or unlocks the active or selected rows

Ctrl+H

Replaces text in the translation grid (press Ctrl+H again for advanced options)

Ctrl+F8

Removes all tags from target cell

Tab

Jumps from source cell to target cell and back

Ctrl+Shift+G

Jumps to segment by type or status that you can set; or, jumps to segment number

Ctrl+Shift+N

Moves the selected text right by one word

Ctrl+P

Looks up a term in the term bases

Ctrl+Shift+B

Moves the selected text left by one word

Ctrl+Shift+Space

Inserts a non-breaking space in the target

Ctrl+B

Makes the selected text bold and back

Ctrl+Shift+-

Inserts a non-breaking hyphen in the target

Ctrl+I

Makes the selected text italic and back

Ctrl+F1

Shows/hides ribbon tabs.