The Replace Everywhere tab lets you make global word or phrase substitutions. Unlike the Replace Once tab, you do not need to specify a specific translation key to be translated – instead, every occurrence of the word or phrase is changed, regardless of where it occurs. Words entered in this tab are case-sensitive.
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If your account includes support for multiple languages, use the language drop-down control to select the language to which the replacement you are defining applies or for which you want to view the currently defined translations.
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Click the Create button to define a new substitution. When you click this button, a new row is added with the column names entered as default original term and replacement term values. You can then edit these values to specify a meaningful substitution, and select or clear the check box in the Replace Whole Words Only column to indicate how the substitution is performed.
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Use the Delete button to delete the currently selected substitution. This displays a confirmation dialog box before removing the currently selected row.
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The list of string substitutions.
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The Replace column indicates the exact word or phrase to be translated wherever it appears in the user interface. Click a value in this column to edit it.
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The With column displays any replacement you have defined (in the current language) for the Replace term. If you click a value in the With column, the cell becomes an edit box where you can change the current value.
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The Replace Whole Words Only column indicates if a substitution is made only when the string in the Replace edit box matches a whole word in the user interface. Click in this column so that it changes to a check box that you can select or clear to specify whether or not you want to allow matches where the original is part of a longer word.
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Allowing replacements that are not restricted to whole words lets you use a single substitution, such as "driver" replaced with "technician", to handle related forms of the word: this also would automatically replace "drivers" with "technicians" as well. However, allowing unrestricted substitutions can lead to spurious matches. For example, if you want to replace "member" with "individual", you probably want to select the Replace Whole Words Only check box, so that the word "remember" does not get translated to "reindividual". Also, watch out for grammatical differences. If you substitute "change" for "edit", you probably want to restrict to whole words so that "editing" does not become "changeing" instead of "changing".
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