General measuresGet documents for translation/reviewYou must either Check out a project from a memoQ server (usual method when working for PRODOC) or you can Translate a package when you work for a different translation agency: 
Open a single file- Just double-click on the file name
Open more than one file (create view first)| Info |
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If you have to translate/review more than one file, you must create a view in order to be able to view all files together in one window and perform Find&Replace or sorting or filter actions for all files together |
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Project home select all documents to be reviewed - right-click and select
Create View
- assign a name to the view in the next window and click OK
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Views you can open the view you just created
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| title | Delete View after use! |
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| You should must delete your views before closing/delivering a project - otherwise there might be problems during synchronization! |
NO documents are deleted when a view is removed, only the view itself is deleted. Spell check settingsActivate automatic spell checkIn general, you should use our recommended settings, as described in Installation and setup of memoQ. Make sure that the following is set: 
This will underline misspelled word while you are typing: 
Use Ignore lists for quick spellcheckIf the Check spelling as you type option is active (see above), memoQ underlines those words in red, that are not found in the spellcheck dictionaries. This helps you to identify words for which spelling should be checked.
Correctly spelled words can be added to ignore lists, in order to never be bothered by them again. Add new words to the ignore lists- Use the
Add command to add new words to the selected ignore list.
Spaces and other non-printing characters| Info |
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Non printing characters apart from the normal space character are special space characters and special hyphens.
These special spaces and hyphens are used to keep the characters around them together. Examples are given below. |
In technical documentation good technical writers will make use of non breaking spaces, non-breaking hyphens and other special space characters in order to get correct word wrapping automatically e.g. for numbers and physical untis, but also for proper names. | Info |
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| You might want to keep e.g. PRODOC Translations always together in one line. Using a non-breaking space between PRODOC and Translations will do the job for you. |
If the source text contains a lot of special characters, you, as the translator, should be able to recognize them and enter them into your translation. This is why you need to see the non-printing characters! Activate the display of non-printing charactersIn general, you should use our recommended settings, as described in Installation and setup of memoQ. Make sure that the following is set:
Representation of non-printing charactersSpacesSee, how spaces look in the memoQ editor: | Non-printing characters activated | Non-printing characters NOT activated | Effects of the different use of spaces on word-wrap at the end of a line |
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| | | - Normal space
- Non-breaking space
- t-space (=non-breaking space with the width of a t-character)
- No space
You can see the different types of spaces | - Normal space
- Non-breaking space
- t-space (=non-breaking space with the width of a t-character
- No space
You can not see the different types of spaces | - A normal space will not keep 159 and Ah together in one line
- A non-breaking space will keep 159 and Ah together in one line
- A t-space or any other special space character will keep 159 and Ah together in one line
- No space will also keep 159 and Ah together in one line
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How you enter the different types of spaces into your text: - Normal space → space bar
- Non-breaking space → CTRL+SHIFT+space bar
- t-space → copy from source text or define keyboard shortcut if it occurs frequently
Hyphens| Non-printing characters activated | Non-printing characters NOT activated |
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| | | - Normal hyphen
- Non-breaking hyphen
| - Normal hyphen
- Non-breaking hyphen
| - A normal hyphen will not keep ISO17100 and -1 together in one line
- The non-breaking hyphen will keep ISO17100 and -1 together in one line
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How you enter the different types of hyphens into your text: - Normal hyphen → "-" sign
- Non-breaking hyphen → CTRL+SHIFT+"-" sign
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