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Thread poster: Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Feb 8

Does Trados 2022 have a keyboard shortcut to change case?
 
Mark Nathan
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France
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French to English
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Maj F3 Feb 8

If you press Maj and F3 together, the selected text changes from lower case to upper case to just first letters capitalized.

Jorge Payan
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
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Shift? Feb 8

Mark Nathan wrote:

If you press Maj and F3 together, the selected text changes from lower case to upper case to just first letters capitalized.


Ah, you actually have to select the text. Thank you.
 
Xanthippe
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AutoHotKey script Feb 8

Trados doesn't have any shortcut to change the case, but I install AutoHotKey (a freeware) and I've create a AutoHotKey script to change the case.

Here is the script:
;——————————————————————————
; Change the case of a whole segment in Trados Studio.
;——————————————————————————
!z : :
Send ^a
Sleep 300
Send +{F3}
Return

following this script, to change the case, just do ALT Z

[Modifié le 2024-02-08 13:44 GMT]

Hans Lenting
Jorge Payan
Stepan Konev
 
Roy Oestensen
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Sorry, but Maj? Feb 8

Mark Nathan wrote:
If you press Maj and F3 together, the selected text changes from lower case to upper case to just first letters capitalized.


I take it "Maj" is French for a key. Is it the shift key you mean?
 
Mark Nathan
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Yes Shift Feb 8

Sorry, "Maj" is Shift on French keyboards.

Hans Lenting
 
Denis Fesik
Denis Fesik
Local time: 02:04
English to Russian
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Sad Feb 9

Sometimes I want to capitalize the first letter in every segment out of hundreds or even thousands because I feel bad about paragraphs that start with a lower-case letter: they seem lonesome to me. And I get tons of such paragraphs whenever I get to review a big document. I want a smart way to do this, but the only technique I know is to do as many find and replaces as there are letters in the alphabet. Can't call it a smart way
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
It can be done Feb 11

Denis Fesik wrote:

Sometimes I want to capitalize the first letter in every segment out of hundreds or even thousands


You can either work directly in the xliff with an advanced editor like Notepad++, BBEdit, or use the advanced Find and Replace feature of Trados itself.

In both cases you will need a regular expression that replaces any letter at the start of every segment with the uppercase of the found letter:

https://https//www.regular-expressions.info//replacecase.html
 
Stepan Konev
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Russian Federation
Local time: 02:04
English to Russian
Mission impossible Feb 11

Hans Lenting wrote:
you will need a regular expression that replaces any letter at the start of every segment with the uppercase of the found letter
This is not possible with Trados unfortunately...
https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/communityknowledge?articleName=000015523

[Edited at 2024-02-11 10:52 GMT]

Hans Lenting
 
Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
TOPIC STARTER
Oops Feb 12

Stepan Konev wrote:

Hans Lenting wrote:
you will need a regular expression that replaces any letter at the start of every segment with the uppercase of the found letter
This is not possible with Trados unfortunately...
https://gateway.sdl.com/apex/communityknowledge?articleName=000015523

[Edited at 2024-02-11 10:52 GMT]


I was mistaken: it's indeed not possible in Trados.

It is possible in BBEdit etc.:

Screenshot 2024-02-12 at 12.18.22

[Edited at 2024-02-12 11:20 GMT]

Stepan Konev
 


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