The New term base window opens when you create a new term base in memoQ.

A term base is a database that contains pairs of words or expressions (together: terms) in several languages. In translation, term bases are used like a glossary where you can look for terms that are relevant to your translation work.

You can use one or more term bases in a project. While you work in the translation editor, memoQ continuously looks for terms from the text in the term bases. The translation editor will highlight the terms that are found in the term bases.

Empty term base: This command creates an empty term base. To fill up a term base with new entries, you can either add them directly from the translation editor while you are translating - or you can import Excel workbooks or other files to add a large number of entries at once.

Term bases are multilingual: When you create a term base from inside a project, it will contain the source language and all the target languages of the project. If you create a term base from Resource Console, you can pick one or more languages.

How to get here

Open the Resource Console. Choose Term bases. Under the list, click Create new.

From a project: Open a project. In Project home, choose Term bases. On the Term bases ribbon, click Create/Use New. This command creates the term base, and adds it to the project.

From an online project: Open an online project for management. In the memoQ online project window, choose Term bases. On the Term bases ribbon, click Create/use new. This command creates the term base, and adds it to the project.

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If My Computer is selected in Resource Console or at the top of the memoQ window

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If a memoQ server is selected in Resource Console or at the top of the memoQ window - even if you come from a local project

What can you do?

Choose a place for the term base (Resource Console only)

Give a name and a description to the term base. Review and choose main details

Choose languages for the term base

Make a moderated term base - where new terms must be approved by a terminologist

Choose default lookup properties for new terms in the term base

When you finish

To create the term base: Click OK.

To return to the Resource Console or to Project home, and not create a term base: Click Cancel.

If you removed languages from the default settings (that is, you cleared check boxes of languages)