About Wordfast Pro 3 help

Purpose

This online help will assist you in understanding and using Wordfast Professional (Wordfast Pro 3). It contains step-by-step procedures of Wordfast Pro 3 functions.

Audience

This help is a reference for project managers and translators. The audience must be familiar with basic translation terminologies.

Organization

The help is organized as follows:

Section

Contents

Section 1

Overview of Wordfast Pro 3 and workflows providing a snapshot of Wordfast Pro 3 functions.

Section 2

Procedure for installing Wordfast Pro 3.

Section 3

Procedures for opening Wordfast Pro 3 and a brief description of the PM and TXML editor perspectives.

Section 4

Procedures for PM plug-in tasks.

Section 5

Information on basic menu options.

Section 6

Procedures for managing translation projects.

Section 7

Information on advanced options such as selecting memory preferences, segmentation settings, shortcut keys, license management, updating dictionaries and working with accented characters.

Section 8

Information on common errors and their solutions.

Section 9

Procedures for working with Wordfast Aligner.

Section 10

Procedures for working with TM Administration perspective.

Conventions

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Term

Description

TM

Translation memory

TXML  

Tracker Extensible Markup Language

XML

Extensible Markup Language

HTML

HyperText Markup Language