How to Specify your Default Options

This topic describes how to specify your default settings that are automatically applied when you open a document or create a new project. You can specify default settings for file types, batch processing, AutoSuggest dictionaries, translation memories and termbases.

 

To specify your default options:

  1. Select Tools > Options from the menu bar. The Options dialog box is displayed.

  2. To specify your default file type settings, select File Types from the navigation tree. The File Type settings are displayed. Specify your settings as needed.

  3. To specify settings that apply to all language pairs, select Language Pairs > All Language Pairs from the navigation tree. Specify settings on the following pages:

  1. If you want to define different settings for an individual language pair, select Language Pairs from the navigation tree. The Language Pairs settings are displayed on the right. Any language pairs for which default translation memory selections have been added, are displayed in the Language Pairs box.

  2. If the language pair for which you want to specify settings for is not there, click Add. The Add Language Pair dialog box is displayed.

  3. Select the source and target languages of the new language pair and click OK. The language pair is added to the Language Pairs box on the right and to the navigation tree under Language Pairs.

  4. Select Language Pairs < [Source Language Name - Target Language Name] from the navigation tree. Specify settings on the following pages:

 

Related Topics

Overview: Setting Preferences and Defaults