The document provides tips and tools for boosting productivity, particularly for translators, highlighting various software such as Xbench and Autohotkey. It emphasizes the importance of recognizing productivity barriers and offers practical shortcuts and functions to enhance efficiency. Additionally, it invites readers to reach out for further information and access the Autohotkey script used in the session.

1. Or how to boost your productivity
By Anthony Teixeira
Japanese/English > French Translator
IGDA Localization SIG Co-chair

2.  Ctrl + Backspace: Deletes a word
 Ctrl + Up/Down: Jumps to beginning/end of paragraph
 Shift + Left/Right: (Un)selects a letter at a time
 Ctrl + Shift + Left/Right: Selects a word
Did you know the following shortcuts?
You can use them right now

3.  Lack of time
 Routine
 We simply don’t know such shortcuts even exist
 To work more efficiently, we first need to be aware of
what is holding us back

4.  5 tools ready out of the box
- XBench
- Okapi Rainbow
- WinMerge
- XLTools
- RDBMerge
 AutoHotkey, a scripting&automation tool

5.  Free until v2.9
 QA checks
Inconsistencies
Glossary mismatches
Missing numbers, tags
Punctuation issues (double spacing, unmatched parentheses)
Repeated words
 Converts various formats into TMX

6.  Useful for large projects, especially when several translators
are involved
 Offers all the basic options you need from such a tool (stop
words, min/max number of words per term, etc.)
 Many other features (QA, batch search&replace, translation
package creation, etc.)
 Open source, cross-platform and regularly updated

7.  Tells you what lines have been changed, deleted or added
between two versions of a file
 Useful if you need to quickly compare two versions of a text
...you may also use Microsoft Word’s Compare function

8.  Free version available with the most important features
 Data cleaning: removes trailing/double spaces (common
issue with CAT tools)
 Switches case on any range of cells

9.  Merges Excel files/tabs
 Saves time for QA/proofreading, word counts and other
tasks when strings are spread over a large number of
tabs/files

10.  Okapi Olifant (TM management)
 Notepad++ (Text and code editor)

11.  Scripting and automation tool
 Maps hotkeys to scripts or mouse/keyboard operations
 Relatively easy to learn for non-programmers (macro recorder
available on AHK’s website)
 Runs in the background, works in any software

12.  Automate online searches
 Run/Switch to the program or folder of your choice
 Map hotkeys to different key combinations
 Switch case
 Count characters in selected text
 Output special ©haracte®s
 Generate text patterns
 About anything?

13. ^+g::
run "http://google.com/search?q=%clipboard%"
return
"^+g::“ represents the hotkey ("Ctrl + Alt + g" here)
"run“ is an instruction used to run a program/open a page. Here, we’re
opening a Google search with the content of the clipboard
“return“ marks the end of the function

14.  For more information about the tools introduced in this
document, feel free to contact me at:
contact@at-it-translator.com
 The AutoHotkey script used during this session is available at
the following address: http://bit.ly/AHK-Scripts
It comes with comments and links to help you create or
customize your own scripts