Open the Search window with Ctrl+F and enter the word or phrase you wish to search for in the Search for box.
Alternatively, you can select a word or phrase in the Editor pane, Fuzzy matches pane or Glossary pane and hit Ctrl+F. The word or phrase is entered in the Search for box automatically. You can have several Search windows open at the same time, but close them when they are no longer needed so that they do not clutter your desktop.
Click the dropdown arrow of the Search for box to access the last 10 searches.
The Search window has its own menus:
File > Search for selection (Ctrl+F): refocus on the search field and select all its contents.
File > Close (Ctrl+W): close the search window (in the same way as Esc)
Edit > Insert source (Ctrl+Shift+I): insert current segment source.
Edit > Replace with source (Ctrl+Shift+R): replace with current segment source.
Edit > Create Glossary Entry (Ctrl+Shift+G): add a new glossary item.
In both exact and keyword searches, the wild card search characters '*' and '?' can be used. They have the meaning, familiar to Word users:
'*' matches zero or more characters, from the current position
in a given word to its end. The search term 'run*'
for example would match words 'run'
,
'runs'
and 'running'
.
'?' matches any single character. For instance,
'run?'
would match the word
'runs'
and 'runn'
in the word
'running'
.
The matches will be displayed in bold blue. Note that '*' and '?' have special meaning in regular expressions, so wild card search, as described here, applies to exact and keyword search only (see below).
Select the method using the radio buttons. The following search methods are available:
Search for segments containing the exact string you specified.
An exact search looks for a phrase, i.e. if several words are
entered, they are found only if they occur in exactly that sequence.
Searching for open file
will thus find all
occurrences of the string open
file
, but not file
opened
or open input
file
.
Search for segments containing all keywords you specified, in
any order. Select keyword search to search for any number of
individual full words, in any order. OmegaT displays a list of all
segments containing all of the words specified. Keyword searches are
similar to a search "with all of the words" in an Internet search
engine such as Google (AND logic). Using keyword search with
open file
will thus find all
occurrences of the string open
file
, as well as file
opened
, open input file
, file
may not be safe to open
, etc.
The search string will be treated as a regular expression. The search string - [a-zA-Z]+[öäüqwß] - in the example above for instance looks for words in the target segment, containing questionable characters from German keyboard. Regular expressions are a powerful way to look for instances of a string. See more in the chapter Regular Expressions.
Additionally to one of the methods above you can select the following:
case sensitive: the search will be performed for the exact string specified; i.e. capitalization is observed.
Space matches nbsp: when this option is checked, a space character put in search entry can match either a normal space character or a non-breacking space (\u00A) character.
in source: search in the source segments
in translations: search in the target segments
in notes: search in notes to segments
in comments: search in comments to segments
Translated or untranslated: search in both translated and untranslated segments.
Translated: search only in translated segments.
Untranslated: search only in untranslated segments.
Display: all matching segments: if checked, all the segments are displayed one by one, even if they are present several times in the same document or in different documents.
Display: file names: if checked, the name of the file where each segment is found is displayed above each result.
Search in Project: check
Memory to include the project memory
(project_save.tmx file) in the search. Check TMs
to include the translation memories located in the
tm
folder in the search. Check
Glossaries to include the glossaries located in
the glossary
folder in the search.
Search in Files: search in a
single file or a folder containing a set of files. When searching
through files (as opposed to translation memories), OmegaT restricts
the search to files in source file formats. Consequently, although
OmegaT is quite able to handle tmx
files, it does
not include them in the Search files search.
If you click on the button Full/Half width char insensitive option is checked, searches for fullwidth forms (CJK characters) will match halfwidth forms and vice versa.
additional criteria (author or changer of the translation, date translated, excluding orphan segments, etc) can be selected. WhenPressing the search button after entering a string in the search field displays all the segments in the project that include the entered string. As OmegaT handles identical segments as one single entity, only the first unique segment is shown. The segments are displayed in order of appearance in the project. Translated segments are displayed with the original text at the top and the translated text at the bottom, untranslated segments are displayed as the source only.
Double-clicking on a segment opens it in the Editor for modifications (one single click does it when Auto-sync with Editor option is checked). You can then switch back to the Search window for the next segment found, for instance to check and, if necessary, correct the terminology.
In the Search window, you can use standard shortcuts (Ctrl+N, Ctrl+P) to move from one segment to another.
You may have several Search windows open at the same time. You can quickly see their contents by looking at their title: it will contain the search term used.
For easier navigation in the search result set, you can apply the search to the editor. Press the Filter button on the bottom to limit the shown entries in the editor window to those that match the current search. You can use normal navigation to go to e.g. the next (untranslated) segment that matches the search criteria.
NB:
To remove a filter, press the Remove filter button, or reload a project.