Chapter 2. Menus

Creates and opens a new project.

Creates a local copy of a remote OmegaT project. See How to use a team project for details.

Opens a previously created project.

Give access to the ten last edited projects. Clicking on one will save the current project, close it and open the other project.

Copies the selected files to the source folder and reloads the project to load the new files.

To translate the contents of a Wikipedia page (for example):

When you have finished your translation, to import it into Wikipedia:

Reloads the project to take external changes in source files and project settings into account.

New translation memories placed in the /tm folder while translating are loaded automatically as soon as the cursor moves from one segment to another.

Saves the translation and closes the project.

Saves the internal translation memory to the hard disk. OmegaT automatically saves translations every 3 minutes as well as when you close the project or quit OmegaT.

The interval of 3 minutes can be changed in Options → Preferences → Saving and Output.

Uploads to the repository the files that have been added or modified locally in the source directory.

This function is specific to team projects.

Uploads to the repository the files that have been created locally in the target directory.

This function is specific to team projects.

Creates the target documents based on your translation. The created target documents are located in the target folder.

Creates the target document corresponding to the current document in translation.

Opens a project package in the MED format defined by the EU Directorate-General for Translation.

Converts the current project into a MED package.

Displays Project properties dialog to edit project languages and folder locations.

Opens the Project files window.

Gives access to the project folders.

In addition, two menu entries allow opening directly the current source and target documents and the writable glossary. The documents are opened by the application chosen by the operating system. If the documents are not available, the entry is greyed out.

Saves the project and quits OmegaT. If you haven't yet saved the project, this manually confirms whether you really wish to quit.

Restores the status before the last editing action was taken. This command does not work once the modified segment has been validated.

Restores the status before the last editing action was cancelled. This command does not work once the modified segment has been validated.

Replaces the whole target segment with the currently selected fuzzy match (by default the first match is selected).

If some texts are selected within the fuzzy match, only this selection will replace the whole target segment.

Inserts the currently selected fuzzy match at the cursor position. If part of the target segment has been selected, this function overwrites the selected portion.

If some texts are selected within the fuzzy match, only this selection will be inserted at the cursor position.

Replaces the target segment with the translation, provided by the selected Machine Translation service. No action is taken, if no Machine Translation service has been activated (in Options → Machine Translate).

Replaces the whole target segment with the source.

Inserts the source at the cursor position.

Inserts the source tags (if they where missing) at the cursor position.

Inserts only one tag (among the missing ones) at the cursor position.

Exports the current selection to a text file for processing. If no text has been selected, the current source segment is written to this file. When the user exits OmegaT, this file is not emptied, in order to be consistent with usual clipboard behavior. The exported contents are copied to the file selection.txt located in the User's preference files folder.

Allows the user create an entry in the default glossary file.

If you select a text string (in any pane) before pressing Ctrl+Shift+G, the text will be pasted by default in the Source term field.

This can apply also to Target term and Comment fields if new selections are made and Ctrl+Shift+G pressed again.

Opens a new Search window.

If you select a text string (in any pane) before pressing Ctrl+F, the text will be pasted by default in the Search for field.

Pressing Ctrl+Shift+F displays the last already opened Search window (instead of opening a new one).

Opens a new Search and replace window.

If you select a text string (in any pane) before pressing Ctrl+K, the text will be pasted by default in the Search for field.

If automatic searching in dictionaries is disabled, this function allows you to search for the selected word in the dictionaries.

Changes the case of the highlighted text in the target segment to the selected option (Lower case, Upper case, Title case or Sentence case). Use Shift+F3 to cycle through the four alternatives. If no text is selected, OmegaT selects the word that contains the letter immediately to the right of the cursor.

Selects the previous, the next or the Nth fuzzy match displayed in the fuzzy match pane to replace or insert it to the segment.

If there's several alternative translations available for the active segment, you can label the alternative selected as the default translation. The entry will be greyed, if there's just one translation available.

The one and the same segment may, depending on the context, require different translations. Select this menu item, if the current translation does not apply and enter the alternative translation.

Deletes the translation and set the segment as untranslated.

Define the translation as being empty. In the target document, nothing will appear for this segment. In the Editor, the translation is displayed as <EMPTY>

Use this command to register the translation to be identical to the source, even if Allow translation to be equal to source is not checked.

Moves to the next segment that has no equivalent in the translation memory.

Moves to the next already translated segment, ignoring untranslated segments.

Moves to the next segment. If the current segment is the last segment in a file, it moves to the first segment of the next file.

Note: Enter is an alternate shortcut if Use TAB to Advance option is not selected.

Moves to the previous segment. If the current segment is the first one in a file, it moves to the last segment of the previous file.

Note: Ctrl+Enter is an alternate shortcut if Use TAB to Advance option is not selected.

The segment is opened when either its segment call-out or segment number is entered.

The next segment with a note attached to it, will open.

The previous segment with a note will open.

Moves to the segment that does correspond to the current selected match in the Fuzzy matches pane.

OmegaT remembers the segments executed. With this command you can step forward to the segment, you have previously left by the Back in history... command.

With this command you can move backward one segment at a time, to return later to the current segment using Forward in history...command below.

If checked, the translated segments will be marked in yellow.

If checked, the untranslated segments will be marked in violet.

If checked, the separations between paragraphs in the source document are indicated visually.

If checked, source segments will be shown and marked in green. If not checked, source segments will not be shown.

If checked, non-unique segments will be marked in pale grey.

If checked, segments with notes will be marked in cyan. This marking has priority over Mark Translated Segments and Mark Untranslated Segments.

If checked, non-breakable spaces will be displayed with a grey background.

If checked, white spaces will be displayed with a small dot.

This option displays bidirectional control characters

If checked, the background of all segments where the target segment has been auto-populated (from TMXs placed in /tm/auto for example) are displayed in colour. The colours are displayed as long as the Save auto-populated status option is checked. Usual translations inserted from the auto folder are displayed in orange. Other translations, identified specifically in the TMX, can be displayed using different colours. For technical details, see the Request For Enhancement.

Check this option in case OmegaT does not display some glyphs properly (even if the fonts containing the relevant glyphs are installed on your machine). Note: on Windows it seems that this manual font fallback mechanism can interfere with standard font fallback, causing undesirable font substitution. For that reason, it is OFF by default.

Setting the Display Modification option to Current segment will display the time and the author of the last change in the current segment. Setting it to All segments shows this information for all segments and None turns this option off.

Quality assurance tool that carries out all the automatic checks in one go and displays the results in a window.

Four types of issues are detected:

The results window is laid out in the form of a table in which:

As above, but only for the document currently displayed in the Editor pane.

Opens a new window and displays the project statistics, i.e. the project totals and totals for every file in the project.

Displays the Match Statistics for the project: the number of repetitions, exact matches, fuzzy matches and no-matches for segments, words and characters.

Displays the Match Statistics for each file of the project: the number of repetitions, exact matches, fuzzy matches and no-matches for segments, words and characters.

Select the two files to be aligned (the source file and its translation) and click OK to open the Align window.

The supported file formats are those listed in Project → Properties → File Filters.

The source and target files can have different formats (for example, a .docx file can be aligned with a .pdf file).

Opens the Scripting window, where the location of scripts can be set, and where scripts can be written, run and associated with a shortcut.

Launches scripts that have been associated with a number.

To associate a script with a number:

If commands to perform external searches have been defined in the Preferences, they are listed and accessible here.

Opens the Preferences dialog.

Allows you to activate/deactivate the Machine Translation tools offered.

If several translation engines are selected, then Ctrl+M is also used to switch between them and insert the last one selected.

Select Taas Terminology Lookup to activate this lookup.

Check the Use Fuzzy Matching for Dictionary Entries option if you want dictionaries to display words that have the same root.

If Show Relevant Suggestions Automatically option is checked, Auto-completer is launched automatically by typing the first letters of a translated glossary entry, or by typing "<" in case of tags.

Check History Completion to display suggested words as soon as their first letters are entered.

Check History Prediction to display suggested words that commonly follow the word that has just been entered.

Opens the File Filters options in the Preferences dialog.

These settings apply to OmegaT level, to all projects.

Opens the Segmentation Setup options in the Preferences dialog.

These settings apply to OmegaT level, to all projects.

Opens the Editor options in the Preferences dialog.

These settings apply to OmegaT level, to all projects.

Opens the local directory where OmegaT configuration files are stored (depends on the Operating system).

Opens this manual in the default browser.

Displays copyright, credits and license information.

Displays the list of new functionalities, enhancements and bug fixes for each new release.

Displays the current log file. The title of the dialog reflects the file actually used (which depends on how many instances of OmegaT are running concurrently).

Checks to see whether a more recent version of OmegaT has been released.