right click and merge segments (or use keyboard shortcut, default is Ctrl+Alt+S)Īn AutoHotkey script can automate these three steps so you only need a single shortcut.For example, if you wanted to merge segments you would have to do this: I have also suggested to users that they try AutoHotkey to resolve things from time to time that cannot be done with SDL Trados software without a series of manual steps. ![]() One of the more popular tools we see for this is AutoHotkey and I have written an article in the past explaining how to use this for autocorrect in any application at all. ![]() The advent of APIs support the work of clever developers who have created tools such as AutoHotkey or AutoIt that can allow people like me to write a simple script that can interact with a modern windows computer, or even a modern application running on that computer. But fortunately for me this doesn’t mean you can’t use the same sort of scripting skills that I used in the “olden days”. Today, programming computers requires a lot more technical knowledge than it did when I was writing small applications for a PET or an HP calculator. This had very basic programming functions, a magnetic card reader and a thermal printer and I loved it! In fact I loved the way HP calculators worked so much I had an 11c for years until I dropped it trying to align a laser while being dangled headfirst into a catchpit on a construction site! And we think the Studio alignment process is tricky □īut that’s another story… what I’m slowly getting to is the ability to program computers to make them behave the way you would like. ![]() I should have realised back then it would have been smart to focus on technology, but instead I took a bit of a detour in my career and computers didn’t feature at all until around 1987 when I was introduced to the HP41c from Hewlett Packard. I’ve always had a secret desire to be able to program computers… the problem is it’s not something you can do just like that! I can recall starting off with a Commodore PET 2001 some time in the late 70’s and I can remember how enjoyable it was to be able to create simple scripts that could react to whatever you pressed on the keyboard.
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