John Di Rico wrote:
Willem Wunderink wrote:
If basic features like 'Select all segments' or 'Select segments' (by clicking ID's and hold Shift for example) are still not built in, the program is hopelessly antique and way behind in development.
It strikes me that John Di Rico, Wordfast Manager Training and Sales, doesn't seem to have a clue what translating is about: he needs to ask us what the benefits are!.... It's like asking a bike rider about the benefits of a pedal....
Anyway, six years later Wordfast has not been upgraded, whilst all professional programs like MemoQ are developped and enhanced with the speed of lightning, so I conclude that Wordfast is bound to die a soft death.
Dear Willem,
I have many clues as to what translating is about. Besides a master’s degree in transation and localization management from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, I have been translating more or less full time since 2005.
In fact, in 16 years of translating with a CAT tool, I recall wanting to multi-select segments only once. In the end, I managed to do what I wanted using the segment filtering feature (available from Wordfast Pro 4.x and up). Hence the reason I asked others to share their use cases (not benefits, which usually are to perform work better, faster, or more easily).
Interestingly, the initial post was made for the legacy version of Wordfast Pro (version 3.x), which did not have a feature to filter segments.
Since then, only a handful of people have requested this feature which perhaps means that the majority of users might not be missing it. Then again, perhaps the silent majority is doing what they do best, remaining silent!
I can only encourage you and others to submit a feedback report via Wordfast Pro to request this feature. These reports go directly to the development team and are helpful for prioritizing improvements, new features, and bug fixes for each release.