Juan Valenzuela 

Presumably if you're new and are following a training program then you should be able to tell us what you have done, step by step so far?  Then we can tell you what you're missing.  I don't think trying to explain everything you need to know here will be helpful since you clearly missed something after following these steps in the first place.

A decade ago I wrote a short article  that might be helpful in the meantime:

https://multifarious.filkin.com/2013/01/28/iiktwikn

Perhaps you can take a look and see if it helps?  The interface will look a little different but at least the principle are basically the same.

Hi Paul!

I sincerely appreciate your time and expertise. As you said, I've been following the training program step by step without changing any of the default settings. The very first thing I did following the instructions was to open a Word sample document provided by Trados which I had previously downloaded to my computer. To do so, I went to the "welcome" window, clicked on the "browse" link, selected the document, and then clicked "open". The "translate" window opened showing the file I had selected, where I clicked on the "translate as single document" button. Right after the "translation memory and document settings" window opened. I selected both the source and target languages, then clicked on the "create a translation memory" button, named the database, and then clicked on the "finish" button, and once the translation memory was created I clicked on the finish button. After that, the window confirming the creation of the translation memory opened, and I clicked "ok" to open the file on the editor. The editor opened showing the document with a single sentence on each segment. The first seven sentences are very similar. I started t the first one and clicked the "confirm" button. I moved to the second segment and translated it. In theory, it should have shown a fuzzy match on the third segment since they are about 95% similar, but the "translation results window" shows no matches found.  I continued translating waiting for more fuzzy matches to show up since the first seven segments are very similar but it didn't happen.  All I did was follow the instructions on the training program but at this point, the training program and my practice stopped coinciding.    

I have to say that this is extremely frustrating. I purchased both, Trados Studio 2022 and the training program and I find it unfair to have to pay for technical support. Any advice on the right direction will be highly appreciated.

Thank you!        

Hi, Juan!

Go to the Project Configuration and there to the Language combinations - All Language combination - Translation Memory- Search.

The following window will open:

If you have the minimum value of coincidence set to 100, lower it to 70%.

Hope, it will help! Best regards!

Hi Julia, 

Thank you very much for your time. It wasn't until today that I could go back to Trados since I'm slowly switching jobs and translation will be the main one.

I followed your instructions and unfortunately, the minimum value coincidence was set to 70%. I'm lost. I haven't been able to use the toll. I find it outrageous having to pay for technical support since I haven't modified the original settings, and purchasing the program was not cheap. If you have any other suggestions, I'd be more than grateful!

Regards

Juan     

Hola, Juan!

Trados translation memories are a blank sheet. If you have a veery small memory, then the probability of the program returning you any results, both 100% or fuzzy matches, is extremely low. 

Are you sure you update your TMs when you translate? How big are your TMs?

Best regards.