Keyboard Shortcuts

All keyboard shortcuts available in Supervertaler for Trados, with Mac equivalents for users running Trados in Parallels.

Note

Mac users (Parallels): Ctrl = Control, Alt = Option on Mac keyboards. Check Parallels → Preferences → Shortcuts if your modifier key mapping differs.

First-time setup: free up Trados shortcuts

Trados Studio ships with its own default bindings on several of the key combinations Supervertaler uses – and the Trados binding wins. If a Supervertaler shortcut does nothing, this is almost always why. Go to File → Options → Keyboard Shortcuts, search for the Trados action named below, and delete (or reassign) its binding:

Shortcut	Trados default action (delete its binding)	Supervertaler action that needs it
Ctrl+Alt+T	Insert TM Symbol (™)	Add term entry (full editor)
Ctrl+Alt+N	New Cloud Project	Quick-add non-translatable term
Ctrl+Alt+G	Open GroupShare Project	Auto-tag active segment (AutoTagger)
Alt+Up	Focus Previous Row	Quick-add term to project termbase
Ctrl+Q	View Internally Source	Open QuickLauncher

Note

The same applies to any other Supervertaler shortcut that appears dead: search File → Options → Keyboard Shortcuts for that key combination and clear the Trados binding. You only need to do this once per Trados installation – but repeat it after reinstalling or resetting Trados Studio.

Terminology

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Alt+Down	Option+Down	Quick-add term to write termbases
Alt+Up	Option+Up	Quick-add term to project termbase
Ctrl+Alt+T	Control+Option+T	Add term entry (opens full editor with definition, domain, notes, URL, client, project, and synonyms)
Ctrl+Alt+N	Control+Option+N	Quick-add non-translatable term
Ctrl (tap)	Control (tap)	Toggle the floating TermLens popup (open / close)
Ctrl+Shift+P	Control+Shift+P	Open TermPicker (list-based)
Alt+1 … Alt+9	Option+1 … Option+9	Insert term 1–9 by badge number

AI Translation

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Ctrl+Q	Control+Q	Open QuickLauncher prompt menu
Alt+T	Option+T	Translate the active segment (uses Batch Translate settings)

Note

Why Alt+T and not Ctrl+T? Ctrl+T is a Trados factory default (“Apply Translation Result”). Binding both to one key made a single press fire both commands, which raced on the same segment and could freeze Studio – so the default moved to the collision-free Alt+T (in plugin v18/19.20.119). If you upgraded from an earlier version and still have it on Ctrl+T, reassign it to Alt+T (or any free key) in File → Options → Keyboard Shortcuts; Studio keeps your existing binding across updates.

Voice Commands

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Ctrl+Alt+V	Control+Option+V	Toggle voice commands on/off (same as clicking the 🎤 button in the TermLens header)

QuickLauncher Shortcuts

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Ctrl+Alt+1 … Ctrl+Alt+9	Control+Option+1 … Control+Option+9	Run QuickLauncher prompt assigned to slot 1–9
Ctrl+Alt+0	Control+Option+0	Run QuickLauncher prompt assigned to slot 10

Note

Assign prompts to slots in Settings → Prompts. Select a QuickLauncher prompt and choose a shortcut from the dropdown in the detail pane. If no slots are assigned, the shortcuts default to menu position order.

SuperMemory

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Ctrl+Alt+M	Control+Option+M	Quick Add – add a term or correction to the active memory bank

SuperSearch

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Alt+S	Option+S	Open SuperSearch — searches for the selected source/target text across all project files

AutoTagger

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
Ctrl+Alt+G	Control+Option+G	Auto-tag the active segment – places the source segment’s inline tags in the target

Navigation and Display

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Action
F1	F1	Context-sensitive help
F2	F2	Expand selection to word boundaries
F5	F5	Force-reload Supervertaler termbases from disk and refresh TermLens display (does not reload MultiTerm termbases)

Shortcuts for Terms 10+

When a segment has more than 9 matched terms, you can still insert terms by number using Alt+digit. TermLens offers two shortcut styles – choose the one you prefer in Settings > TermLens > Term shortcuts.

Sequential (default)

Type the term number digit by digit. Each badge shows the plain term number (10, 11, 12, …).

Shortcut (Windows)	Shortcut (Mac)	Inserts
Alt+10	Option+10	Term 10
Alt+23	Option+23	Term 23
Alt+45	Option+45	Term 45

After the first digit, TermLens waits briefly for a possible second (or third) digit. If no further digit is pressed, the single-digit term is inserted.

Repeated digit

Press the same digit key multiple times. Each badge shows the repeated digit (11, 222, 3333, …).

Presses	Windows	Mac	Badge	Terms
1x	Alt+1 … Alt+9	Option+1 … Option+9	1 – 9	1–9
2x	Alt+11 … Alt+99	Option+11 … Option+99	11 – 99	10–18
3x	Alt+111 … Alt+999	Option+111 … Option+999	111 – 999	19–27
4x	Alt+1111 … Alt+9999	Option+1111 … Option+9999	1111 – 9999	28–36
5x	Alt+11111 … Alt+99999	Option+11111 … Option+99999	11111 – 99999	37–45

Note

In both modes, when a segment has 9 or fewer matches, pressing Alt+N inserts immediately with no delay.

Note

Terms beyond 45 have no keyboard shortcut. Use the TermLens popup (tap Ctrl) or TermPicker (Ctrl+Shift+P) to insert them.

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See Also

• TermLens
• Supervertaler
• SuperSearch
• AutoTagger
• Batch Translate
• SuperMemory