Forum: Wordfast support
Topic: WFC, Ctrl+Alt+down: if multiple entries, then drop-down box 1 character wide
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dominique and @Mark
[quote]Dominique Pivard wrote:
1) switch view from Normal to Print layout, then back (or vice-versa),
2) increase or decrease the zoom % until the box has a normal width. [/quote]
#1 didn't work. #2 would mean 75% zoom with an MS Word window of about 1000 pixels wide, making the text not only very hard to read, but also difficult to read since all of a segment would be on one line all the way across the screen.
I also tried recording a macro that would redefine the style every time I used the glossary, but the macro didn't work. The find/replace operation worked, but when I tried to use the recorded macro, it didn't work.
I've now switched to the latest version of WFC, which doesn't have this problem (yet), and which displays not only the source and target text of each glossary item but also the description. I wonder if I can tell the latest WFC to either not show the description, or to show it at a smaller font... since some of my descriptions are rather long.
[quote]Mark Hamlen wrote:
This often happens to me when I'm using a window that's smaller than the entire screen. I find it will readjust correctly if I maximize the window (then provoke a drop down) and then re-size it to the size I want. No idea why this works (or why WFC uses the 1 character drop down). [/quote]
Interesting solution -- I wish I had known about it before I installed the latest version of WFC.
I practically never use any program with a maximised window, and certainly not MS Word. Well, I sometimes maximise poorly designed Excel files. My screen is too big for that, and cascading windows enables me to get a better overview of what's open on my desktop.
[Edited at 2014-01-09 08:28 GMT]
Topic: WFC, Ctrl+Alt+down: if multiple entries, then drop-down box 1 character wide
Poster: Samuel Murray
Post title: @Dominique and @Mark
[quote]Dominique Pivard wrote:
1) switch view from Normal to Print layout, then back (or vice-versa),
2) increase or decrease the zoom % until the box has a normal width. [/quote]
#1 didn't work. #2 would mean 75% zoom with an MS Word window of about 1000 pixels wide, making the text not only very hard to read, but also difficult to read since all of a segment would be on one line all the way across the screen.
I also tried recording a macro that would redefine the style every time I used the glossary, but the macro didn't work. The find/replace operation worked, but when I tried to use the recorded macro, it didn't work.
I've now switched to the latest version of WFC, which doesn't have this problem (yet), and which displays not only the source and target text of each glossary item but also the description. I wonder if I can tell the latest WFC to either not show the description, or to show it at a smaller font... since some of my descriptions are rather long.
[quote]Mark Hamlen wrote:
This often happens to me when I'm using a window that's smaller than the entire screen. I find it will readjust correctly if I maximize the window (then provoke a drop down) and then re-size it to the size I want. No idea why this works (or why WFC uses the 1 character drop down). [/quote]
Interesting solution -- I wish I had known about it before I installed the latest version of WFC.
I practically never use any program with a maximised window, and certainly not MS Word. Well, I sometimes maximise poorly designed Excel files. My screen is too big for that, and cascading windows enables me to get a better overview of what's open on my desktop.
[Edited at 2014-01-09 08:28 GMT]