Q: Query term & use result

<ol> <li>${color}[#008080](Query term (video))</li> </ol> Highlight the word you want to query in the source texts and a list of results from top dictionaries will appear on the right. ${youtube}<a href="-5_7oLxd96g">Query term</a> ${color}<a href="--------">#ffffff</a> <ol start="2"> <li>${color}[#008080](Query term)</li> </ol> <ul> <li>Open the query panel (opened by default).</li> <li>Highlight the term you want to look up and a list of results will be displayed on the panel.</li> <li>Click on the result [#008080](words in green)) you want to use.</li> <li>The result will be pasted into the text area.</li> </ul> <img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/65d77fde2530e000/zzz_tbjhpu.jpg" alt="1. Highlight 2. Click on the result you want (words in green) 3. Result pasted into text area" /> ${color}<a href="--------">#ffffff</a> <ul> <li>Don't forget that you can look up words in the target texts too.</li> </ul>

Q: Paragraph mode (Paste/drag & drop upload)

<img src="https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/65d77fde2530e000/2020-02-22-20_17kyy1l.png" alt="The first paragraph has three sentences and they are shown in the same paragraph." /> ${color}<a href="-------------">#ffffff</a> <ol> <li>${color}[#008080](What is Paragraph Mode?)</li> </ol> Paragraph mode shows the whole file in paragraph-based style to help you preserve the sense of wholeness of the context. <ul> <li>Only when you upload a source file with paste/drag & drop can you choose to translate in paragraph mode.</li> <li>The source texts will be presented in paragraph-based style.</li> </ul> ${color}<a href="-------------">#ffffff</a> <ol start="2"> <li>${color}[#008080](When to use Paragraph Mode?)</li> </ol> <ul> <li>Best used when your source file (doc or docx) doesn't contain complex text styles, i.g. indents, tables, bullet points, hyperlinks, etc.</li> <li>Best for near-plain-text files, for example, book translation.</li> </ul>

Question 1

Intro to other features (Paste/drag & drop upload)

Accepted Answer

If you use ** paste/drag & drop** method to upload a source file, you'll see other features in the translation page.

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${color}[#008080](Sentence/paragraph mode )

You can choose to translate in sentence-based mode (default) or paragraph-based mode ( ** read more** ).

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${color}[#008080](Edit source and target texts )

You can edit the source and target texts ( ** read more** ).

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${color}[#008080](Custom hotkeys )

You can set F1～F10 keys to save frequently used terms or symbols ( ** read more** ).

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${color}[#008080](Translation/proofread bar)

Press Tab key to move to the next sentence without using a mouse, and your translation/proofread progress will be calculated at the sa

Question 2

Query term & use result

Accepted Answer

${color}[#008080](Query term (video))

Highlight the word you want to query in the source texts and a list of results from top dictionaries will appear on the right.

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${color}[#008080](Query term)

Open the query panel (opened by default).
Highlight the term you want to look up and a list of results will be displayed on the panel.
Click on the result [#008080](words in green)) you want to use.
The result will be pasted into the text area.

1. Highlight 2. Click on the result you want (words in green) 3. Result pasted into text area

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Don't forget that you can look up words in the target texts too.

Question 3

Intro to interface and main features

Accepted Answer

Four main parts in translation page

${color}#ffffff There are three main parts in the translation page:

${color}#008080: This part shows how many paragraphs there are in the source file. It also shows the status of each paragraph with different colors.

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**${color}#008080: This part shows how many sentences there are in a specific paragraph.

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Main features in translation page

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Question 4

Quick reuse your glossary

Accepted Answer

${youtube}Quick reuse your glossary

${color}#ffffff After you add terms to your glossary, there're two ways you can quick reuse them.

${color}[#008080](Method One: Use with auto-suggestion)

Place your cursor in the text area.
The term will automatically show up (auto-suggest) under the text area when the source text contains it.
Click on the term to paste it into the text area.

Terms added to your glossary will auto show up if the source texts contain it.

Please noted that:

Auto-suggestion is only available when terms in the souce texts are identical to those in glossaries. For example, if you add "possibility" to your glossary, while the source texts contain "possibilities," then "possibility" will not show up.
Auto-suggestion is case insensitive.
Auto-suggestion supports languages including English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Danish, Catalan, Indonesian, Greek, Latvian, Polish, Finnish, Arabic, Russian, Bulgarian, Norwegian, Czech, Dutch, Swedish, and Romanian.

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${color}[#008080](Method Two: Use with quick compose)

Place your cursor in the text area.
Entering the first character of the term in its source or target form, you'll see

Question 5

Add terms to glossary

Accepted Answer

There are three ways to add a term to your glossary.

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${color}[#008080](Add after looking it up)

Click the ${color}#0080ff (${color}[#0080ff](words in blue)) you want to add to your glossary on the query panel.
An card appear on the left showing the term is added. To edit the term, click on the card before it disappear (optional).

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${color}[#008080](Add from the scratch)

Click "A" on the top right.
A window pops up with nothing automatically filled in. Fill in source and target text of a term.
Click "Add."

${color}#ffffff Further reading: How to use terms in your glossary

Question 6

Paragraph mode (Paste/drag & drop upload)

Accepted Answer

The first paragraph has three sentences and they are shown in the same paragraph.

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${color}[#008080](What is Paragraph Mode?)

Paragraph mode shows the whole file in paragraph-based style to help you preserve the sense of wholeness of the context.

Only when you upload a source file with paste/drag & drop can you choose to translate in paragraph mode.
The source texts will be presented in paragraph-based style.

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${color}[#008080](When to use Paragraph Mode?)

Best used when your source file (doc or docx) doesn't contain complex text styles, i.g. indents, tables, bullet points, hyperlinks, etc.
Best for near-plain-text files, for example, book translation.

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