Help me make MemoQ 2014 more like Studio 2014!

Martin Henderson wrote:

Hi all,

I am a long time user of Trados Studio, however, I have played around with MemoQ on a few occasions too and I think it does have some innovative features that I wouldn't mind giving a try. Unfortunately, there are two issues holding me back from making that leap to MemoQ and they are:

1) I cannot find a way to get the word count (in actual words not percent) to display somewhere on the screen while I am translating the document. This is a must-have feature for me. In Studio, in the botton right hand corner, there is a little box that you can configure to display the number of words that are i) untraslated, ii) draft, and iii) translated. I know they say a watched kettle never boils, but this is a feature (crutch?) I really rely on to help me keep track of how well I am progressing with the translation and I can't do without it. MemoQ seems to have some sort of percentage indicator but I cannot figure out if it can be switched to display the true word count. Can anybody point me in the right direction or is this not a feature that is available in MemoQ?

2) In Studio, after you have finished translating a segment, you press Enter + Control, the segment is confirmed and you are immediately teleported to the next unconfirmed segment regardless of where it may be in the document, i.e. if the immediately following segment is already confirmed for some reason, then you are taken to the next unconfirmed segment after that even if it's at the end of the document, saving you the time of having to search for it by scrolling; however, when I do this same combination in MemoQ it only ever progresses to the next segment, even though that next segment may already be confirmed, which means that I then have to grab the mouse and scroll down to find the segment I want to be at. Is there some way to make this behaviour more like it is in Studio so that the programme will just automatically jump to the next unconfirmed segment I want to be at so I can continue translating?

It may be that these behaviours are by design and that they annoy me only because I am too "attached" to Studio for my own good after years of use. But if anybody is aware that these are behaviours that can be modified in the settings, I would be grateful if you could point me in the right direction.

Thanks,
Martin

Martin Henderson wrote:

I see that it is possible to jump to the next unconfirmed segment but to do so you have to press Control + G rather than Control + Enter (there isn't a way to remap the G key to the Enter key in this combination?) and this may sound ridiculously fastidious to you, but having to move my hand to press G, which is over to the left of the keyboard, rather than Enter is actually not very comfortable for me and I can't imagine myself doing that a thousand times in a 50,000 document, it's not a very natural position for my arms to be in!

Martin Henderson wrote:

Thank you all very much for your help. And thank you Lihn for the very helpful screenshots. I see that it is possible to jump to the next unconfirmed segment but to do so you have to press Control + G rather than Control + Enter (there isn't a way to remap the G key to the Enter key in this combination?) and this may sound ridiculously fastidious to you, but having to move my hand to press G, which is over to the left of the keyboard, rather than Enter is actually not very comfortable for me and I can't imagine myself doing that a thousand times in a 50,000 document, it's not a very natural position for my arms to be in!

The word count workaround will have to do, although it's just not as convenient as having the real word count (in actual words not percent) right there so you know exactly how many tedious words of this document you have left until you can go off and do something more interesting!

Thanks anyway!
Martin

[Edited at 2015-02-11 18:01 GMT]