Unable to copy/paste using MemoQ online on a Mac
Thread poster: Adam Fuss
Adam Fuss
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Member (2012)
Russian to English
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Oct 23, 2019

I'm on a big memoQ project for a client, and since I work on a Mac, they've given me access to the files in memoQ online. It's clunky, but it works reasonably well --- except for one irritating feature. Does anyone know why I can't copy text from either the source or target columns? It would be so helpful to be able to do that to use a dictionary more quickly. The only workaround I've discovered is to copy all source text to target, accept the translation, and then copy the source text from the ... See more
I'm on a big memoQ project for a client, and since I work on a Mac, they've given me access to the files in memoQ online. It's clunky, but it works reasonably well --- except for one irritating feature. Does anyone know why I can't copy text from either the source or target columns? It would be so helpful to be able to do that to use a dictionary more quickly. The only workaround I've discovered is to copy all source text to target, accept the translation, and then copy the source text from the right-hand column that shows the translation results/history. This is time consuming, to say the least, and I feel like it may interfere with the client's TM (I immediately reject the translation, but still...)

Is there something that's off in my Mac settings, or is this just an annoying issue I'm going to have to live with? It's a problem in both Safari and Chrome (haven't tried Firefox). The project is large enough that I'm honestly considering installing memoQ locally on my Windows partition that I haven't opened in ages.

Thank you!
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Hans Lenting
Hans Lenting
Netherlands
Member (2006)
German to Dutch
Via the context menu? Oct 24, 2019

Adam Fuss wrote:

Does anyone know why I can't copy text from either the source or target columns?


Can you copy via the context menu?


 
Kristina Hammer
Kristina Hammer
Local time: 09:51
English to German
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Answer still required Oct 25, 2020

Hi Proz,

I have the same issue and if someone has a solution, I would be grateful if someone knows how to copy paste in the online editor of memoQ when using on a mac. I am a reviewer and for me it is especially important to copy paste the text, when I find errors and I have to provide suggestions in a scorecard. Currently, I have to download the bilingual rtf files and in parallel, edit/implement and confirm the rows in the memoQ online which is more work and makes me slow.
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Hi Proz,

I have the same issue and if someone has a solution, I would be grateful if someone knows how to copy paste in the online editor of memoQ when using on a mac. I am a reviewer and for me it is especially important to copy paste the text, when I find errors and I have to provide suggestions in a scorecard. Currently, I have to download the bilingual rtf files and in parallel, edit/implement and confirm the rows in the memoQ online which is more work and makes me slow.

Thanks everyone.
Kris
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