Michael Farrel’s IntelliWebSearch (IWS) is an extremely popular program for looking up terms in a large number of terminology (and other) resources, also from within Studio and other CAT tools. It’s quite easy to use, but the help pages (on the net) may be slightly off-putting. Therefore, I have written this quick guide, which will […]

IATE (Inter-Active Terminology for Europe) is the European Union’s inter-institutional terminology database, and it is such a huge – more than 8 million termpost entries – and comprehensive (and also to a great extent normative) terminology resource that I feel motivated to include some extra information about it. A good place to start is IATE’s […]

This will be a long post… With the cumulative update (CU) 6, on 5 August, the SDL BeGlobal Community was replaced by the SDL Language Cloud. It offers many more options and hence requires a sub-section of its own, which will be included in the upcoming update of the 2014 version of the manual. (Note, […]

It’s not uncommon that the Update from External Review ends in error. This will happen if the review document was handled in Word 2003 or previous versions (even if the .docx format is retained), but it can happen for other reasons as well. However, this is often a solution: Open the problematic reviewed document in any […]

It has happened that a user opens Studio and, inexplicably, the interface language is Chinese! What to do when of course you cannot understand any of the commands? Here is how: click the highlighed button as shown below: Then, in the new dialog box (below), click the downward arrow and select your language. Click the […]

The OpenExchange concept is a brilliant idea, but navigating the OpenExchange site is a bit unwieldy. Hence my table at the Manual site, which presents all plugins/applications all at once; you can also sort them by clicking on the column headers. Links give direct access to the respective OpenExchange presentation page as well as to […]

I don’t like reading long texts on screen. Also, I often need (or think I need) to save interesting and/or important stuff on paper. But screen content is often cluttered with all sorts of irrelevant material. And sometimes also the layout makes direct printouts difficult to handle and read (e.g. the type size may be […]

If you have the automatic update function activated (it is by default: check under File > Options and Automatic Updates in the left-hand pane), you would have been prompted to update a few days ago (or anytime after that if you bought Studio later). This would have given you the Cumulative Update 2, or CU2. […]

This is a function for inserting placeables/tags in the target text that I have come to appreciate very much: By pressing Ctrl+Alt+RightArrow/LeftArrow, you step between the placeables/tags in the source element, forwards or backwards; each placeable/tag is highlighted in turn. When you come to the correct one, you just press Enter to insert it. In a […]

Sometimes you have a Word document with source and target texts not in the usual Trados bilinugal format but simply as two columns in a table. Roger Sjölander’s nice macro handily transforms that table into a TM file in text format (but first make sure that the source is in the left-hand column). The macro […]