Before starting an alignment, specify the translation memories (TMs) where you want SDL Trados Studio to send the alignment results. You can choose to send the results to a new or to an existing TM, whether it is a file-based or a server-based TM.
In the Welcome or Translation Memories view, click Home tab > 
Align Documents > Align Multiple Files. Studio opens the Align Documents wizard.
Choose the TM you want to use for the alignment results:
click 
Create to use a new TM.
click 
Add to use an existing TM.
Specify the type of TM to use:
click File-based Translation Memory to select a TM that you have stored on your computer.
click Server-based Translation Memory to select a TM stored on a TM Server.
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If your selected server-based TM contains multiple language pairs, Studio enables the Next button on the Align Documents dialog box. After you specify your source and target files, click Next to go to the Select Language Pair page. Here you can choose the language pair that matches the languages of the documents you want tot align. |
Optionally, click 
Settings to change the default translation memory settings such as custom fields, language resources, access rights and performance.
By default, Studio tags each translation unit generated from the alignment with three custom fields: Quality, Source File and Target File. The Quality field shows how confident Studio is that the source and target segment are aligned correctly. The quality score is calculated based on the internal alignment algorithm which considers linguistic and contextual dependencies between the source and target segments in the document. Click here for more information on the Alignment quality value. The Source and Target File fields show the location of the documents that generated the translation unit.
By default, Studio saves each alignment result file in an Alignment Results folder under %UserProfile%/My Documents/Studio 2015. Click Browse for folder to save the *.sdlalign files to a different folder instead. Studio names each alignment result file that it generates after aligning multiple files [name of the source file].sdlalign.
If you want to review the result of the alignment that Studio performs automatically, make sure to select the Save Alignment result files for later review option on the Select Translation Memory page.
When Studio finishes aligning your files, you can open the saved alignment results file in the Alignment view. Here can edit the connections and the segment content and open the alignment file in the Editor view for extra editing or QA checks.