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Unfocusing Word window makes WFC's auto-translate faster
Thread poster: Samuel Murray
Samuel Murray
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English to Afrikaans
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Dec 19, 2019

Hello everyone

I've noticed that when dealing with documents where a lot of segments are 100% matches, WFC runs through the segments much faster if Word does not have the focus. I.e. if I click in another window or on the Desktop, WFC is suddenly faster.

So I wrote a little AutoIt script that unfocuses and refocuses the Word window easily using a shortcut. It is here:... See more
Hello everyone

I've noticed that when dealing with documents where a lot of segments are 100% matches, WFC runs through the segments much faster if Word does not have the focus. I.e. if I click in another window or on the Desktop, WFC is suddenly faster.

So I wrote a little AutoIt script that unfocuses and refocuses the Word window easily using a shortcut. It is here:
http://www.leuce.com/autoit/unfocus%20window.zip

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