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Opens the Start New Project Wizard, which you can use to create a new project. You can also use this wizard to import files from other sources. See Creating New Projects.

Click the face of the button to save changes to the active file. You can also select the following from the submenu:

• Save Saves changes to the active file.
• Save All Saves changes to all of the open files.

Opens the Properties dialog for the selected item.

Generates a statistical report for your Lingo project. It displays the results in an HTML file and lets you see information about your translation work. This is a way to provide for your client an estimate of the amount of translation work that still needs to be done. See Computing Statistics.

Opens a dialog that lets you select a newer version of the source project or file(s) that are being translated. The Lingo project is then updated with those changes. See Updating Projects.

Click the face of the button to close the active file. You can also select the following from the submenu:

• Close Closes the active file.
• Close Project Closes the current project, but the application itself does not close.

Displays a list of recently opened files. You can select one from the list to open it. You can also select Manage Recent Files. This opens the Recent Files dialog, which lets you remove files from the list of recently opened files. This allows you to keep the list shorter and more manageable. When you use this feature, the file is merely removed from the list, but the actual file is not deleted. See Recent Files Dialog.

Pastes the selection from the clipboard to the place where the cursor is inserted.

Copies the selection and sends it to the clipboard.

Accepts the current segment, inserts that translation into the translation memory, and then moves the focus of the editor to the next untranslated segment. See Translating Files.

Accepts the current segment, inserts that translation into the translation memory, and then moves the focus of the editor to the previous translated or untranslated segment.

Uploads several new terms to the termbase.

Copies each tag in order from the source to the target cell.

Breaks the segment at the point where the cursor is placed, so that the one segment becomes two. See About Split/Join.

Scans your translation memory to find 100% or 101% matches for untranslated segments and applies those translations accordingly. See Applying TM Suggestions to Segments.

Creates a translation bundle (based on files you have selected in the File List window pane) to send to translators. See Preparing Translation Bundles and About Bundles.

Opens a submenu that lets you insert special characters or symbols into the eitor. See Inserting Characters and Symbols.

• Insert Quick Character Inserts the quick character. You can also accomplish this by clicking the by pressing F11 on your keyboard.
• Non-breaking Space Inserts a non-breaking space. This is a special space character that prevents an automatic line break (line wrap) at its position. Also known as a hard space or fixed space, it can be used to create multiple spaces in a row in systems like HTML that reduce sequences of normal spaces to a single space. You can also insert a non-breaking space by pressing SHIFT+SPACE on your keyboard.
• Non-breaking Hyphen Inserts a non-breaking hyphen. You can also insert a non-breaking hyphen by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+- on your keyboard.
• Favorites Displays and lets you select any of the characters and symbols from your favorites list.
• Recently Used Displays and lets you select any of your most recently used characters and symbols.
• More characters Opens the new Character dialog. See Character Dialog.

Opens the Quick Replace widget in the upper-right corner of the open document. This is the same as the Quick Find widget, except that it opens with the replace fields already in view. It lets you search for and replace text in that document. See Using the Quick Find and Replace Widgets.

Lets you open a TM in the Translation Memory Editor, which lets you modify the contents of your TM database. See Editing the Translation Memory Database.

Opens the Manage Translation Memory dialog, which lets you select one or more TM databases to be associated with the project. See Choosing a Translation Memory Database.

Opens the Export to TMX dialog, which lets you export your TMX file so that it can be used in other tools. See Exporting TMX Files.

Lets you create a new local or server termbase. See Adding Termbases.

Import an existing termbase to the Lingo project. See Importing Termbase Files.

Opens the Machine Translation Providers dialog, which lets you select a machine translation provider and enter applicable machine translation credentials. See Choosing a Machine Translation Provider.

Opens the File List window pane, which lets you view all of the content files in your project in alphabetical order. You can limit the files that are displayed by using the file type filter. For example, if you want to see only your image files, you could select the "Image/Media Files" option from the Filter drop-down list. You can also perform certain tasks from this window pane, such as opening files, applying condition tags, and applying stylesheets. And because you can select multiple files from the list, you can perform these tasks for all of the selected files at the same time. See File List Window Pane.

Opens the Concordance Search window pane, which lets you perform advanced searches for content in the project. See About the Concordance.

Opens the Start Page, which provides links to high-level tasks and information. See Start Page.

Opens the Backups window pane so that you can see the files for which you have created backups and restore (roll back) any of those files if necessary. See About Backups, Viewing Backup Files, and Restoring Backup Files.

Activates a feature that lets you check your spelling as you type in your topics. Questionable words are underlined with a jagged red line. You can take action with the word by right-clicking on it. See Spell Checking While Typing.

Opens the segmentation rules dialog, which lets you create rules to automatically split segments or keep them together. See About Segmentation Rules.

Opens the Manage Windows dialog, which lists the files that are currently open and lets you activate (i.e., switch to), save, or close a particular file.

If you select the Dock option when a window pane is active, the Drag Pane area is shown or hidden in the window pane accordingly. The Drag Pane area lets you move the window pane and dock it elsewhere in the program window.

Converts the active window pane or editor to a floating window, which means it is no longer attached to the interface. This is a good option to use if you want to work on two topics side-by-side. If you do not want a window pane or editor to be floating anymore, you can right-click in the title bar and select Dock.

Saves the window layout. You can select the following from the submenu:

• Save Window Layout If you are working in a particular layout and have opened different interface elements or moved interface elements around, you can select this option to save the changes to the layout.
• Save Window Layout As Opens the Rename Window Layout dialog, which lets you save the current interface configuration as a layout.

Returns the current configuration of the interface to the factory layout settings (the original layout when you first installed and launched Lingo).