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Autocorrect does not take effect in Review mode

Walter Blaser

The Autocorrect function under 'Options - AutoCorrect" seems to work only when one is in Translation mode.

If one reviews a document, these options do not apply.

This is very unappropriate, because it raises situations which are very difficult to overcome.
One example: you are revising a document and the translator has inserted straight quotes instead of curly ones. You want to correct this, but you cannot unless you know the keyboard combination for the curly quote because your typing always inserts a straight quote.
We have this problem in Trados Team where we get translated documents with straight quotes and cannot correct them. We had to implement QA regex rules to make sure that translators get their task returned as long as their text contains straight quotes.

The same is true for all other autocorrected characters.

Is this by design or a bug?

It seems that this problem exist since quite a while, see this post:
(70) Straight apostrophe when Tracks Changes is activated. I need curvy one. - 1. Trados Studio - Trados Studio - RWS Community

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[edited by: Walter Blaser at 11:37 AM (GMT 1) on 12 Aug 2026]
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    Did you check this setting? It is off per default:

    When activated, the auto corrections should also work in review mode.

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    BTW, you can easily search and replace quotation marks with this regex. This one is for Polish quotes, but you just need to adapt which quotes shall be replaced by which. Not so hard Slight smile

    Search phrase: (\s)(?:“|”|")(.+?)(?:"|“)

    Replacement: $1„$2”

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  • 0 in reply to Jerzy Czopik

    Hi  

    The setting is ON, and it applies in Translation mode, but not in Review mode. This can easily be verified with any autocorrection, not only with quotes. Autocorrection simply does not work in Review mode. 
    You can see it clearly in attached video.
    Walter
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  • 0 in reply to Walter Blaser

    Sorry, I am back to apologize.
    It's only now that I realize that your screenshot shows a different window than the 'Editor- Autocorrect'. I never realized that there is a second Autocorrect option for review mode.
    And it works if I set this option. 
    I learned something new, many THANKS!
    Let me say that I find this very non intuitive, why should there be two places where one can define the behaviour for autocorrect!!??

    Have a good day,
    Walter
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