Configure Auto-Propagation

The Auto-Propagation preference allows you to leverage repetitive segments and re-use content.

To configure auto-propagation:

Select Preferences from the Wordfast drop-down menu.
On the Preferences dialog, click Auto-Propagation under General Preferences.
Select Enable Auto-Propagation to activate additional auto-propagation options.
Select Enable Auto-Propagation across all open files to apply auto-propagation to all files that are open.

Review the Auto-Propagation options to verify the required options are the only ones selected.

Option	Action
Context matches	Overwrite context leveraged translation memory (TM) matches
100% matches	Overwrite 100% leveraged TM matches
Fuzzy matches	Overwrite partial TM matches
Auto-propagated matches	Overwrite all auto-propagated matches If there are multiple segments that have the same content, editing a segment auto-propagates the change to all matching segments.
Edited segments	Allow the overwrite of edited segments using Auto-Propagation This allows the overwrite of edited segments.
Machine translated segments	Overwrite machine translated content
Committed segments	Overwrite translated content that is committed to the TM