# OmegaT 1.7.3 User Manual - Table of Contents

## About OmegaT
Installing and running OmegaT

## Basics Start using OmegaT in 5 minutes! → a tutorial with links to all the other parts of the manual. The user interface → all the windows and dialogs Main menu and shortcuts → all the functions available from the main menu and their shortcuts Files to translate → supported file formats, converters, right-to-left language issues Working with plain text → plain text files specific encoding issues Working with formatted texts → tags, tag operations and validation Translation memories → project translation memories, external memories, memory exchanges Glossaries → glossaries use and creation Searches → search parameters and wild cards use Preventing data loss → backups and data restoration | ## Customizing OmegaT Project properties → folder organization, language settings Font settings → main windows display font File filters → source and target files handling Source segmentation → per source language, generic segmentation Editing field behaviour → automatic target insertion ## Appendices Files and directories → all the files and directories used by OmegaT Languages and language codes → for project language properties as well as segmentation rules Regular expressions → for searches as well as segmentation rules OmegaT on the Web → user support, development, contributions

## Credits

This user manual is the joint work of Jean-Christophe Helary, Samuel Murray, Maxym Mykhalchuk, Henry Pijffers and Vito Smolej.

It would not have been possible to write such a manual from scratch without the original documentation that Marc Prior has authored and maintained until OmegaT version 1.4.2, Dmitri Gabinski has updated for OmegaT version 1.4.4, and without the input from the user list and the support of the many people who participate to the development of OmegaT. Let us extend our thanks to all the people in the OmegaT community for their energy and inspiration.

## Contact

This manual is not perfect and will be modified over the course of time and following the evolution of OmegaT. If you notice discrepancies between what is described here and OmegaT's behaviour do not hesitate to contact Vito Smolej at vitosmolej AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net.

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