Autocorrect and Autocomplete

Two typing aids share one Preferences tab. Autocorrect applies the right typography for each language as you work: French guillemets, Spanish opening ¿ and ¡, curly quotes, and your own text replacements. Autocomplete finishes the word you are typing, drawing on the memory and terminology matches the finder panels have already retrieved. You set both up once, and the Editor applies them as you type in the target cells.

Turning Autocorrect On and Off

Open the Edit menu and point to Autocorrect:

• Enable autocorrect: the master switch for the whole feature. When it is off, your saved rules are kept but nothing is corrected.

• Correct two initial capitals: when enabled, fixes words typed with two leading capitals (for example, “THe” becomes “The”).

• Configure…: opens Preferences > Autocorrect & autocomplete for the full settings.

Configuring Autocorrect and Autocomplete

To open the settings, click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Editor and select the Autocorrect & autocomplete tab. The tab is organized from top to bottom:

Language-Specific Replacements

Select a language at the top of the language card. The settings below apply to that language only; switch the language to configure another one.

Quote and Punctuation Replacement

Four rules are available: Replace single quotes, Replace double quotes, Replace question marks, and Replace exclamation marks. Each rule shows the characters it inserts before and after the text, or Not set when none are defined.

Follow these steps to change a rule:

1. Click the pencil icon on the rule. The character fields open for editing.

2. Enter the characters to insert before and after.

3. Click the check icon to save, or the cross icon to cancel.

4. Use the rule’s switch to enable or disable it.

Excluded Punctuation

List the characters that should never be replaced for this language. Type a punctuation mark and press Enter to add it. You can add up to 30 characters, and remove any by clicking its cross.

Text Replacements

Create text replacements that expand into longer text as you type. Enter a short code in the Replace column and the full text in the With column, then type the code followed by Space to insert the replacement.

Click + Add text to create a new entry. Click Restore defaults to return the list to the built-in replacements.

Completing Words as You Type

Autocomplete finishes the word you are typing, so you spend fewer keystrokes on wording you have already approved. It is off until you switch it on, the setting is yours alone, and it appears only if your user profile carries the autocomplete right.

Switching It On

Click the gear icon in the top-right corner of the Editor and select the Autocorrect & autocomplete tab, then turn on Enable autocomplete as you type. The switch is independent of the autocorrect master switch, so you can run either aid on its own.

Accepting a Suggestion

Start typing in a target cell. From the second letter onwards, the likely completion appears as gray ghost text immediately after your cursor.

Where Suggestions Come From

The Editor builds a word list for each target language from the results the Memory Finder and Term Finder return as you move through segments. The Memory Finder contributes wording from your translation memories and project documents; the Term Finder contributes terms from your term bases. Terminology is proposed ahead of ordinary memory vocabulary, so a mandated term wins when both would fit.

The list builds up over the session and is cleared when you switch to another job or document. Wording that only ever appeared in entries marked unreliable follows the matching finder’s Include unreliable results setting, and is never ranked ahead of trusted wording.

Example Scenarios

Learn More

• Preferences: Other personal settings for your Editor workspace.

• Memory Finder Panel: Where the memory wording that feeds autocomplete comes from.

• Term Finder Panel: Where the terminology that feeds autocomplete comes from.