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>

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

Intro to interface and main features

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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

${color}#ffffff Further reading: Other features (Upload with paste/drag & drop) [

Question 3

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 4

Quick reuse your glossary

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${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 with the external search shortcut)

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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

Two ways to upload a source file and their pros & cons

Accepted Answer

There're two ways to upload a source file on the upload page, and they can make big differences for you while translating the texts.

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${color}[#008080](Pasting texts / drag & drop a file)

After uploading your source file with the paste/drop method, the source text format will be displayed on the translation page. For example, bolding, hyperlinks, images, etc. will be displayed on the page.

${color}#ffffff Pasting texts / drag & drop a file (This GIF shows only drag & drop)

Pros: You can directly edit the source text while translating. You can edit, merge, split, add, delete, or reorder sentences.
Cons: The text format of the target file may not be identical to the source.
When to use: When the source file is plain text or a text-based document. For example, text-based books.
When not to use: When the source file contains complex formats such as charts, tables, indents, and headings, etc. E.g., balance sheets, income statements, financial reports, or user guides.

Further reading Upload file with past/drag & drop and you can edit source and target texts [Upload file with past/drag & drop to translate in paragraph mode](https://termsoup.crisp.help/en-us/article/paragraph-mode-

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