Options Dialog Box > Editor

When this option is selected, the application automatically re-opens all documents that were open the last time you closed SDL Trados Studio .

When this option is selected, you will be asked whether you want the documents that were open when you closed SDL Trados Studio to be re-opened.

When this option is selected, documents are not re-opened automatically and you are not asked if you want them to be re-opened.

This is the default setting.

When this option is selected, the content of source segments is automatically copied to target segments when you open a document for the first time.

If this option is not selected, the target segments are empty when the document opens in the Editor window.

When this option is selected, segment numbers are displayed.

When this option is selected, whitespace characters appear as symbols in the document text. These characters include, for example, spaces, non-breaking spaces, tabs and line breaks.

Click here to see a list of the whitespace symbols.

When this option is selected, a code is displayed beside each segment. The code indicates where in the document the segment text occurred. For example, the segment text could be a heading or a footnote.

Place the cursor over the code to see a full description of the code.

Click here to see a list of document structure codes.

A different color is assigned to each document structure type. For example, codes that indicate headings are displayed on a pale blue background.

To change the default colors, select a structure type from the first box and a color from one of the tabs in the second box. The following are the three tabs that are displayed when you click the down arrow: Custom, Web and System.

• Click the Custom tab to display a color palette. Click a color in the palette and the color is applied to the currently selected screen component. If the color you want to use is not displayed here, right-click on one of the blank, colorless squares at the bottom of the tab to display the Color dialog box where you can create your own custom color.

• Click the Web tab to display a list of colors which can be used in web pages. Select a color and the color is applied to the currently selected screen component.

• Click the System tab to display a list of Microsoft screen components and colors assigned to the components. Select a color/component combination and the color is applied to the currently selected SDL Trados Studio screen component.

Specify how you want document text to be displayed:

• Show all formatting and tags - When this option is selected, formatting is applied to segment text and the formatting tags themselves are displayed. For example, text that is tagged as bold is displayed in bold and the bold formatting tag pair is also displayed.

• Show formatting but hide recognized formatting tags - When this option is selected, text is formatted correctly but standard formatting tags (for example, bold, italic, and font type) are not displayed.
  This is the default setting.

• Show all tags but do not show formatting - When this option is selected, text in the Editor window is displayed as plain text but with formatting tags. For example, text that is tagged as bold, does not have bold formatting applied but the bold formatting tags are displayed.

When you press Ctrl+,(comma), tags present in the source segment are listed below the target segment. When you select a tag from the drop-down list it is inserted into the target segment.

When the Group adjacent tags in formatting window option is selected, adjacent placeholder tags are grouped together in a single item in the QuickPlace drop-down list or QuickPlace dialog box. This means that you can insert them all into the target segment with a single selection.

Adjacent tags are tags that appear in a sequence and have no text between them.

When this option is selected, if you place your cursor in a segment it automatically becomes the active row. When a row is active you can edit the target segment and a lookup is automatically performed in the translation memory, automated translation server and SDL MultiTerm termbase. If this option is not selected, you have to manually activate the row in the Editor view by selecting Translation > Activate Row from the menu bar.