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Hotkeys

LILT Translate is designed with a range of keyboard shortcuts that enable linguists to operate the editor entirely from the keyboard. Mastering these hotkeys will help linguists save time when processing documents.

Hotkeys work across all languages. However, some hotkeys may not always be available for a given document. For example:

  • If the language pair doesn't have Contextual AI support, LILT does not generate suggestions, meaning the autocompletion hotkeys will not be available.

  • If the document does not have any tags, the tag hotkeys will not be available.

Options that are unavailable are grayed out in the header toolbar.

⭐ = most important hotkeys to know

Text operations


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey

Insert highlighted phrase suggestion

Return

Enter


Select next phrase suggestion

Shift+Tab

Shift+Tab

Insert full suggestion

Shift+Return

Shift+Enter


Toggle case of selected target text

Shift+F3

Shift+F3


Insert non-breaking space

+Shift+Space

Ctrl+Shift+Space


Insert line break

Option+Enter

Alt+Enter


Copy source to target

+I

Ctrl+I


Insert right to left marker

+K

Ctrl+K


Insert left to right marker

+L

Ctrl+L


Undo last change

+Z

Ctrl+Z

Text navigation


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey


Move cursor one character forward

Right

Right


Move cursor one character backward

Left

Left


Move cursor one word forward

Option+Right

Ctrl+Right


Move cursor one word backward

Option+Left

Ctrl+Left


Select character forward

Shift+Right

Shift+Right


Select character backward

Shift+Left

Shift+Left


Select word forward

Option+Shift+Right

Ctrl+Shift+Right


Select word backward

Option+Shift+Left

Ctrl+Shift+Left

Segment actions


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey

Confirm/unconfirm segment

+Return

Ctrl+Enter


Go to next unconfirmed/unaccepted segment

+Down

Ctrl+Down


Go to previous unconfirmed/unaccepted segment

+Up

Ctrl+Up


Go to next segment

+Option+Down

Ctrl+Alt+Down


Go to previous segment

+Option+Up

Ctrl+Alt+Up


Open comments

Ctrl+Shift+M

Ctrl+Alt+M

Tags


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey


Select next tag1

+]

Ctrl+]


Select previous tag2

+[

Ctrl+[


Select matching tag (in a tag pair)

Option+Shift

Alt+Shift


Move selected tag one word left (if character-based language, moves 5 characters left)

M or H

M or H


Move selected tag one character left

, or J

, or J


Move selected tag one character right

. or K

. or K


Move selected tag one word right (if character-based language, moves 5 characters right)

/ or L

/ or L

German keyboard hotkeys:

  • 1Select next tag: Ctrl+Alt+9

  • 2Select previous tag: Ctrl+Alt+8

Tools


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey


Open Concordance

+Option+C

Ctrl+Alt+C


Open find & replace

+H

Ctrl+H


Open form to Add New Terminology

Option+A

Alt+A


Toggle preview mode

Ctrl++P

Ctrl+Shift+P


Close TM diff view

Esc

Esc

Quality assurance


Action

Mac hotkey

Windows hotkey


Run Full QA Check

F7

F7


Run Batch QA Check

F9

F9


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