Verifying Tags

Use the Tag Verification settings to ensure that tags in the translated document match those in the source document. This can check for example that no tags have been deleted or moved.

Opening the Tag Verifier page

If you want to edit the Tag Verifier settings for your active project, click Project Settings > Verification > Tag Verifier > Common.
If you want to edit the Tag Verifier settings for future projects, click File > Options > Verification > Tag Verifier > Common.

Disabling Tag Verifier

Tag verification is enabled by default to ensure that SDL Trados Studio always checks for tag issues. To disable Tag Verification, uncheck all the options under the Check for section.

Check for settings

You can ask Studio to check whether:

your target document contains more tags than the source document
your target document contains less tags than the source document
the order of the tags in the target document differs from the order of the tags in the source document
there are ghost tags in the target document because you have deleted parts of a tag
the spacing around tags has changed in the target document

By default, for each enabled verification, Studio raises an error notification if there are issues when you verify the target document. Change the Error drop-down menu if you want to change the severity of the notification to a note or a warning.

Ignore settings

Option	Description
Ignore formatting tags	This option is enabled by default so that Studio does not check if the formatting tags in the source document correspond to the formatting tags in the target document. Standard formatting tags include bold, italic and font type.
Ignore locked segments	Enable this option if you do not want Studio to perform tag check inside locked segments.
Ignore differences between normal and non-breaking space	Enable this option if you want Studio to treat spaces and non-breaking spaces as identical when checking the space around tags.