Configure Segment Actions

Segment Actions preferences control segment action behaviors, such as Smart Quotes or Smart Punctuation.

To configure segment actions:

  1. Select Preferences from the Wordfast drop-down menu.
  2. On the Preferences dialog, click Segment under General Preferences.
  3. Select a segment option.

    Option

    Action

    Next/Previous Segment action leverages next/previous segment

    Select to automatically leverage the TM for the segment as you make the segment active.

    Open last edited segment when opening a file

    Select to go to the last segment edited after reopening a file.

    Leverage the first opened segment on click

    Select to automatically leverage the TM for the first open segment you click after opening a file for translation.

    Capitalize the first letter of the target segment (Except Asian Languages)

    Select to convert translated segments to sentence case. Not applicable for Asian languages.

    Enable Smart Quotes

    Select to activate both Smart Quote and Smart Punctuation features.

    • Smart Quotes — Changes the quotation marks to smart quotes, depending on the target language.

    • Smart Punctuation — Changes white space and punctuation mark elements to those appropriate for the target language, with the exception of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) languages and those that read from right-to-left (RTL), such as Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, and Urdu.

    Note:   

    The white space group includes spaces, non-breaking spaces, and white space representations: the middot and overring. The white space group also includes cases where an exclamation point or question mark exists in isolation at the beginning of the segment, sentence, or paragraph.

    Skip Unedited 100% Matches

    Select to ignore 100% matched segments.

    Skip Unedited Context Matches

    Select to ignore segments with context matches.

    Cursor position on segment opening

    Select to place the cursor at the beginning or end of the active segment.

    • Start — The default places the cursor at the beginning of the segment on segment selection.

    • End— Places the cursor at the end of the segment on segment selection.