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Edward Potter
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I'm new to WF Pro 5. I'm working on a large editing project and have a few questions and comments:

1) Search/Replace: how do I get keyboard shortcuts? In WF Pro 3 I could hit "R" and "N". For now I am doing a lot of mouse clicking.
2) How do I Replace without jumping to next item? I could do this in WF Pro 3 but apparently not in 5.
3) How do I jump to the first segment? The last segment?

4) When you do a Replace All, it doesn't tell you how many instances w... See more
I'm new to WF Pro 5. I'm working on a large editing project and have a few questions and comments:

1) Search/Replace: how do I get keyboard shortcuts? In WF Pro 3 I could hit "R" and "N". For now I am doing a lot of mouse clicking.
2) How do I Replace without jumping to next item? I could do this in WF Pro 3 but apparently not in 5.
3) How do I jump to the first segment? The last segment?

4) When you do a Replace All, it doesn't tell you how many instances were replaced. Can this be fixed?
5) You have to click out of a segment to see a misspelled word underlined. Can this be fixed?
6) I can't highlight different parts of a segment by holding down the Ctl key. Can this be fixed?

[Edited at 2020-09-03 08:17 GMT] ▲ Collapse
 
Hans Lenting
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That intuitive? Sep 3, 2020

No questions at all?
 
Edward Potter
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It was blank Sep 3, 2020

Hi Hans.

Somehow the text of my original post got deleted. Luckily my handy Ditto Editor had copied it so I just pasted it back in.

Any ideas on my questions?
 
Wolfgang Schoene
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Wordfast Pro 5 Basic Questions 2 Sep 3, 2020

Edward Potter wrote:

I'm new to WF Pro 5. I'm working on a large editing project and have a few questions and comments:

1) Search/Replace: how do I get keyboard shortcuts? In WF Pro 3 I could hit "R" and "N". For now I am doing a lot of mouse clicking.
2) How do I Replace without jumping to next item? I could do this in WF Pro 3 but apparently not in 5.
3) How do I jump to the first segment? The last segment?

4) When you do a Replace All, it doesn't tell you how many instances were replaced. Can this be fixed?
5) You have to click out of a segment to see a misspelled word underlined. Can this be fixed?
6) I can't highlight different parts of a segment by holding down the Ctl key. Can this be fixed?

[Edited at 2020-09-03 08:17 GMT]



1) Go to "Preferences" --> There you'll find all the shortcuts

3) You don't jump to first or last segment, you elegantly scroll...
 
Edward Potter
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These features were available in WF Pro 3 Sep 3, 2020

Wolfgang Schoene wrote:

1) Go to "Preferences" --> There you'll find all the shortcuts

3) You don't jump to first or last segment, you elegantly scroll...


1) The shortcuts I want are not listed under Preferences. When I hit Ctl-H and get the Find/Replace dialog, I can only Find/Replace by clicking my mouse, and clicking and clicking and clicking. In WF Pro 3 I just needed to hit either "N" or R" on my keyboard.

3) In WF Pro 3 I could just hit Ctl-Start or Ctl-End. Scrolling with the mouse is not so elegant to me.
 
Philippe Locquet
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Jump Sep 3, 2020

here's one

Edward Potter wrote:

3) How do I jump to the first segment? The last segment?



ctrl G + your segment number
 
Wolfgang Schoene
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Wordfast Pro 5 Basic Questions 2 Sep 3, 2020

Edward Potter wrote:

Wolfgang Schoene wrote:

1) Go to "Preferences" --> There you'll find all the shortcuts

3) You don't jump to first or last segment, you elegantly scroll...


1) The shortcuts I want are not listed under Preferences. When I hit Ctl-H and get the Find/Replace dialog, I can only Find/Replace by clicking my mouse, and clicking and clicking and clicking. In WF Pro 3 I just needed to hit either "N" or R" on my keyboard.

3) In WF Pro 3 I could just hit Ctl-Start or Ctl-End. Scrolling with the mouse is not so elegant to me.


Thanks for your question 3), I just discovered that CTRL+Start / CTRL+End do work on the Mac. AFAIK this is undocumented.
And there's a Goto segment (CMD+segment number), too, but you have to know the segment number you want to go to.
 


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