Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: Wordfast Classic windows reorganise upon doing a concordance search
Poster: Michael Wetzel
Post title: WfC 6.45 and MS Word 2016 (Windows) + German version of Word
I haven't had the problem you're talking about with the configuration listed in the title. I just tried it again, to be certain, and everything worked normally.
However, I have the same nagging suspicion that Classic seems to get less attention than it deserves from Wordfast. For example, I had a problem with placeables for a long time: It eventually went away, but it seemed to take a long time.
In general, I think WfC is a great and, above all, very distinctive product and I am very happy with it. It doesn't seem clunky and dated to me, but it might be fair to say that I like clunky and dated things, so maybe it's just a matter of taste. I wish there were less glitches to work around, but things are fine.
In fact, I don't know what I'd do without WfC at this point, because I'd hate to go back to just typing things over the source text and I can't imagine moving on to something like Trados, etc.
I own WfP, because it only cost something like €50 for both licenses instead of one, but I've never used it and don't really understand the point of developing another normal CAT that is unlikely to be better than all of the others and very likely to be worse than some. I've never understood the point of the freeware Wf Anywhere either.
If Wordfast has decided that Visual Basic is a dead end in terms of where CATs are now going or if they've just lost interest, I wish they would sell WfC off to someone who cares about it and let them develop and maintain it.
PS: Edited to add that I work with the German version of Word (likely to relevant if it is a problem with MS Word hotkeys)
[Edited at 2017-05-08 06:12 GMT]
Topic: Wordfast Classic windows reorganise upon doing a concordance search
Poster: Michael Wetzel
Post title: WfC 6.45 and MS Word 2016 (Windows) + German version of Word
I haven't had the problem you're talking about with the configuration listed in the title. I just tried it again, to be certain, and everything worked normally.
However, I have the same nagging suspicion that Classic seems to get less attention than it deserves from Wordfast. For example, I had a problem with placeables for a long time: It eventually went away, but it seemed to take a long time.
In general, I think WfC is a great and, above all, very distinctive product and I am very happy with it. It doesn't seem clunky and dated to me, but it might be fair to say that I like clunky and dated things, so maybe it's just a matter of taste. I wish there were less glitches to work around, but things are fine.
In fact, I don't know what I'd do without WfC at this point, because I'd hate to go back to just typing things over the source text and I can't imagine moving on to something like Trados, etc.
I own WfP, because it only cost something like €50 for both licenses instead of one, but I've never used it and don't really understand the point of developing another normal CAT that is unlikely to be better than all of the others and very likely to be worse than some. I've never understood the point of the freeware Wf Anywhere either.
If Wordfast has decided that Visual Basic is a dead end in terms of where CATs are now going or if they've just lost interest, I wish they would sell WfC off to someone who cares about it and let them develop and maintain it.
PS: Edited to add that I work with the German version of Word (likely to relevant if it is a problem with MS Word hotkeys)
[Edited at 2017-05-08 06:12 GMT]