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Multi-Document Smart-Search
Multi-Document Smar t-Search
The 'Multi-Document Manager / Smart-Search' (added in version 2018) allows you to load multiple files/documents in various formats into the ‘background’, and then the Word/Excel search widget can auto-search in these files too, in addition to your own currently open tlTerm/TLex document. You can also directly do searches in the Multi-Document window itself. You can load either your own documents (e.g. tlTerm or TLex files), or third party documents such as downloadable TBX, TMX or XLIFF files. You may continue viewing or editing your own main document ‘as usual’ while the MultiDocument Search window is open. This may help, for example, to use TBX/TMX/XLIFF files as search resources while doing lexicography or terminology work.
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This tool is accessible from within the Word/Excel search widget pop-up window, or from the application 'File' menu, from the application 'Edit' menu, from the main application toolbar, and more.
Supported file formats currently include tlTerm files, TLex files, TMX (Translation Memory eXchange), TBX (TermBase eXchange), and XLIFF (XML Localisation Interchange File Format). This also allows the Word/Excel search widget to effectively search multiple tlTerm files at once, as well as other formats at the same time. (Please note that for .TMX files, you may currently need to copy the relevant TMX DTD file into the folder containing your TMX files if you get DTD-related error messages.) The “General text commands” menu is also available when clicking on search results in the MultiDocument window. This allows you to, for example, do things like send terms/translations in search results from a TMX or TBX file directly to e.g. Word/Excel with commands like ‘Send to Word’ and ‘Send to Excel’. See the chapter on the Word/Excel search widget for more information about this menu.
This tool can also be used to ‘batch import’ data from a TMX or XLIFF file into tlTerm – see the sections on importing data into tlTerm for more information.
