Tools – Options

In the Options dialog, you can control the overall behavior of memoQ. You can also adjust the default light resources for any new projects.

The Options dialog has the following categories:

· Default resources: configure default light resources (segmentation rules, QA settings, ignore lists etc.) for new projects.
· Appearance: Font and color settings for the translation grid and the Translation results pane.
· Spell settings: Configuration of the spelling checker. You can install Hunspell dictionaries here.
· Subsegment leverage: Settings for the Longest Substring Concordance (automatic translation memory concordance) feature.
· Keyboard shortcuts: Configuration page for keyboard shortcuts for common memoQ actions.
· Locations: Locations of memoQ folders: default project folder, translation memory folder etc.
· Automatic update settings: Configuring and checking for program updates.
· Terminology plugins: Enabling, disabling, and configuring various terminology plugins.
· Miscellaneous: Various settings that control the behavior of the editing interface of memoQ.

Note: In memoQ 4, the Options dialog replaces the Global settings dialog.

Options