HiManfred Altmann 

We conducted internal tests with our technical team and did not experience the issue you reported; everything functioned as expected.

Could you please try again? If you could close and reopen the Trados program before doing so, that would be helpful. Let us know if the problem continues.

Best regards,

Hi Ana Sabo 

Thanks for having had a look into this. I did some testing:

First, I retried (I had to restart Trados anyway after changing the display language), the same happened again.

However, I was wrong when writing that merging didn't work: I "marked" the second segment again (this is where nothing happened, the segment was not highlighted), then right-clicked anyway and selected "Merge Segments". The segments were actually merged.

Then I had a look at the color settings. I usually work with a user-defined color (orange) for "Selected segment background color" because the default "Chiffon" color is hard to see in unfavorable light. I had a look under File > Options > Colors, where I found that that color under "Selected segment background color", which was orange in my German UI, had been set to "nothing":

So no surprise it didn't work...

The same is true the other way round: I selected another user-defined color for English, and after switching back to German, the setting was gone:

Conclusion: Any user-defined color selected in the German UI is not retained when switching to the English UI in my case and vice versa. Probably the same is true for other language combinations.

This is no serious bug, but a bit confusing, and I am quite sure that it worked in earlier Trados versions. Maybe you can eliminate it some day. Thanks!

Best regards
Annette (from Manfred's account)

Hi Annette,

Thank you for providing this information; I will pass your feedback along to the relevant team.

Kind regards,