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expressisverbis
Portugal
Local time: 18:50
Member (2015)
English to Portuguese
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My main CAT has too many features, these are the most common.
Sometimes, it is in hidden mode:
Other times in snooze mode:
And not too often, in rest mode:
There is the irritating mode, but you don't want to see it.
Seriously speaking, my main CAT tool can have lots of features, but I use the ones according to my preferences and needs. Sure it is always nice to know better some more of them more specific, because they may be useful in the future.
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| | | | Kay Denney 
France
Local time: 19:50
French to English
'Does your main CAT tool have "too many features"?'
'Yes, but I don't find it problematic'
Tom's not fulfilling his role here so since nature abhors the void, I'll fill in.
If there are "too many" features, it's problematic.
If there are abundant features, most of which you just ignore, there are not too many. There are simply more than necessary. Like the plum tree which produces an abundance of fruit one year (and hardly any the next) Who knows, these fe... See more 'Does your main CAT tool have "too many features"?'
'Yes, but I don't find it problematic'
Tom's not fulfilling his role here so since nature abhors the void, I'll fill in.
If there are "too many" features, it's problematic.
If there are abundant features, most of which you just ignore, there are not too many. There are simply more than necessary. Like the plum tree which produces an abundance of fruit one year (and hardly any the next) Who knows, these features might come in useful one day, like that "pizza knife" that ended up in your second drawer in the kitchen.
My main CAT tool is fine, I find it very easy to browse and the buttons have logical names so I know whether or not clicking on them will be at all useful.
Trados on the other hand, I find totally bloated. It uses up a lot of memory, it bugs now and then and there are tons of weirdly named features that I have no idea what they are for. The ones I do need, I have looked for in vain, then stumbled upon once it's too late. Then the next time I need one I can't remember where it was because the software is not at all intuitive. You might say I should have taken advantage of the free introductory course that was available when I bought the tool, but there were no dates that suited me, and I never needed one for MemoQ, I found everything I need intuitively. ▲ Collapse
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